Exploring the Multiplicity of Embodied Agency in Colombian Assisted Reproduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
Malissa Kay Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Diagnostic Procedures ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Assisted Conception ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Embodied Agency

Analyses of assisted reproductive technologies have demonstrated how objectification and agency can coexist in infertility centres. How objectification creates opportunities for empowerment, however, has not yet been explored. In analysing women’s narratives of assisted conception in Colombian infertility clinics, I demonstrate the complexity in women’s embodied experiences of various objectifying stages of assisted conception and argue that their experiences produced multiple forms of embodied agency. Women used diagnostic procedures to learn about their bodies and infertility complications, which augmented their authority over their bodies and treatment. They drew upon their embodied knowledge to reduce treatment anxieties, while sensations such as pain were made purposeful, and hence meaningful, as women strove to reconfigure the significance of the embodied sensations of conception in a context of medicalized reproduction. In these narratives, we see that lived bodies are productive agents of social change, generating meanings and working to reshape dominant social understandings.

Assisted conception and the risk of CHD: a case–control study

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susie J. Schofield ◽  
Victoria L. Doughty ◽  
Nicole van Stiphout ◽  
Rodney C. G. Franklin ◽  
Mark R. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Assisted Conception ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Brompton Hospital ◽  
Using Data

AbstractEpidemiological studies suggest a higher prevalence of congenital malformations in children conceived through assisted reproductive technologies. There are a few studies that address CHD specifically and most have examined data from registries. We examined the relationship between CHD and assisted conception using data collected in a specialist paediatric cardiac service in the United Kingdom.Between April, 2010 and July, 2011, the parents of children attending paediatric cardiology clinics at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, were invited to complete a questionnaire that enquired about the nature of their child’s conception, the route for their original referral, and a number of potential confounding exposures. “Cases” were defined as children diagnosed with one or more carefully defined CHDs and “controls” as those with normal hearts.Of 894 new attendees with complete data, half of them were cases (n=410, 45.9%). The overall prevalence of assisted conception was 5.4% (n=44). Logistic regression analysis demonstrated a non-significant increase in the crude odds for the use of assisted reproduction (odds ratio 1.21, 95% confidence interval 0.66–2.22) in this group. After adjustment for gestation, parity, year of birth, and maternal age, the odds ratio reduced (odds ratio 0.95, 95% confidence interval 0.48–1.88). Increased rates of assisted conception were observed in a number of CHD subgroups, although no significant differences were found.These findings do not suggest an overall association between CHD and assisted reproduction in this population.

scholarly journals PROTECTION OF INHERITANCE RIGHTS OF A CHILD BORN WITH THE USE OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 39-41
Author(s):  
Ksenia A. Zhirikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Surrogate Mother

The article deals with the problems of inheritance by children born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies, in particular, after a surrogate mother, after the death of one of the parents, etc. These problems are not regulated in Russian legislation. The article proposes directions for its improvement in order to protect a child born with the help of assisted reproduction.

A Stable Environment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Dow
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Assisted Conception ◽  
Reproductive Ethics ◽  
Maternal Bonding ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
The People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Good Reproduction

This chapter concludes that the book has explored what the people of Spey Bay think about the ethics of reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies in order to elucidate what reproductive ethics is, not only in the sense of what people judge to be good but also in terms of what counts as belonging to the domain of ethics. In Spey Bay, the key values people associated with “good” reproduction and parenthood were responsibility, care, and altruism and one way they expressed this was in the hope that people—and not necessarily only the infertile or single-sex couples—would consider adoption or fostering before turning to assisted conception. In this ethnography, the book has also introduced the concept of ethical labor to describe some of the characteristics of the everyday work that goes into making a good life in Spey Bay. It has examined what the people thought about surrogacy, maternal bonding, and environmentalism.

Assisted Reproductive Technology in Spain: Considering Women's Interests

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
INMACULADA DE MELO-MARTÍN
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technology ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technology ◽  
Assisted Conception ◽  
National Healthcare ◽  
The World ◽  
National Healthcare System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Catholic Tradition

It might come as a surprise to many that Spain, a country with a strong Catholic tradition that officially banned contraceptive technologies until 1978, has some of the most liberal regulations in assisted reproduction in the world. Law No. 35/1988 was one of the first and most detailed acts of legislation undertaken on the subject of assisted-conception procedures. Indeed, not only did the law permit research on nonviable embryos, it made assisted reproductive technologies available to any woman, whether married or not, through the national healthcare system.

Distinctions in Disclosure: Mandated Informed Consent in Abortion and ART

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-258
Author(s):  
Judith Daar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Patient Autonomy ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Assisted Conception ◽  
Patient Protection ◽  
Disclosure Laws ◽  
Transparency And Disclosure ◽  
Required Disclosures

Transparency and disclosure in the health care realm occupy a vital link between the delivery of medical services and patient autonomy. In her article, “Disclosure Two Ways,” Erin Bernstein skillfully explores this link in the context of abortion and assisted conception services, keenly observing the rise in mandatory disclosure laws in both arenas. Her thesis, as I understand it, is that laws that require enhanced disclosure above traditional informed consent thresholds can be understood as neutral tools in the name of patient protection, even — or perhaps especially — when their effect is to persuade a patient to forego the requested treatment. She combats the critique that pre-abortion required disclosures are sui generis, arguing against their uniqueness by analyzing them alongside a swell of mandated disclosure laws in the assisted reproductive technologies (ART) context.

Assisted reproduction for HIV-infected couples

Sexual Health ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Michelle Giles ◽  
Anne Mijch ◽  
Suzanne Garland
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Pregnancy Outcomes ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Perinatal Hiv ◽  
Desire To Have Children

Many HIV-infected individuals are in relationships with HIV-uninfected partners and desire to have children. This review focuses on the issue of reproductive choices for these couples, in particular assisted reproductive technologies, and summarises the published outcome data currently available. The results thus far from assisted reproductive technologies in optimising pregnancy outcomes and reducing heterosexual and perinatal HIV transmission are promising. In the future, it is essential that there is ongoing reporting of outcome data, publication of methodology and follow-up, and reporting of adverse outcomes.

Cancer Genetic Testing and Assisted Reproduction

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (29) ◽  
pp. 4775-4782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Offit ◽  
Kelly Kohut ◽  
Bartholt Clagett ◽  
Eve A. Wadsworth ◽  
Kelly J. Lafaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Testing ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Familial Cancer ◽  
Genetic Diagnosis ◽  
Young Patients ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Cancer Genetic ◽  
Cancer Syndromes

Purpose Because of increasing uptake of cancer genetic testing and the improving survival of young patients with cancer, health care practitioners including oncologists will increasingly be asked about options for assisted reproduction by members of families affected by hereditary cancer syndromes. Among these reproductive options, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) offers the opportunity to select embryos without familial cancer-predisposing mutations. Methods A review of the published literature supplemented by a survey of PGD centers in the United States. Results Prenatal diagnosis and/or embryo selection after genetic testing has already been performed in the context of more than a dozen familial cancer syndromes, including the common syndromes of genetic predisposition to colon and breast cancer. Conclusion While constituting new reproductive options for families affected by cancer, the medical indications and ethical acceptance of assisted reproductive technologies for adult-onset cancer predisposition syndromes remain to be defined. Continued discussion of the role of PGD in the reproductive setting is needed to inform the responsible use of these technologies to decrease the burden of heritable cancers.

scholarly journals Gender and social controversies of in vitro fertilization in Serbia: Discrimination against childless women

Temida ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Ksenija Krickovic-Pele ◽  
Kosana Beker
Keyword(s):  
In Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Fertilization Program ◽  
Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
Gynecology And Obstetrics

This paper analyses gender and social controversies of assisted reproductive technologies and the discrimination of childless women in Serbia. Primary goals of this paper are critical analysis of new reproductive technologies phenomenon, discrimination against women without children and critical analysis of the legal framework regulating biomedical assisted reproduction in Serbia from gender studies and feminist methodology perspectives, as well as presentation of the research results on discrimination of childless women. For the purpose of this research the survey and the content analysis have been used. A survey was conducted of 50 female participants in the in vitro fertilization program at the Department for Gynecology and Obstetrics in Novi Sad. The results indicate that the regulations on biomedical assisted reproduction and the criteria for inclusion in the in vitro fertilization program are discriminatory and that women involved in the program feel discriminated against, usually at work and in their own surroundings. The conclusion is that it is necessary to change the regulations governing this area, further work on the elimination of discrimination against childless women and destigmatisation of women and couples that cannot or do not want to have children.

scholarly journals Reprowebs: a conceptual approach to elasticity and change in the global assisted reproduction industry

BioSocieties ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anika König ◽  
Heather Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Reproductive Services ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Art Industry

AbstractIn the last few decades, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have become increasingly transregional and transnational, often involving travel within or between countries or even continents. Until recently, the global ART industry was marked by so-called ‘reprohubs’—places (such as southern California, Dubai, Anand, and Mumbai) specializing in the provision of reproductive services. While reprohubs continue to exist, in the last few years, many have splayed out, transforming into something more akin to webs that encompass, but go beyond these hubs. These webs show a unique dynamic capability to tighten, entangle, or extend in reaction to local and global changes, a characteristic which became particularly obvious during the global Covid-19 pandemic. In this paper, we propose conceptualizing this new dynamic capability as ‘reprowebs’—an approach that adds a new dimension to the existing conceptualization of reproductive travel and helps us to better understand current developments in the global ART industry.

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