Beschreibung:
This innovative volume uses a Swedish case study to explore how health and social structures - including health services, regulatory bodies and patient groups - are being developed and reconfigured to take into account the increased use of assisted reproductive technologies, such as IVF treatments.
1. Introduction: The Science of Life and the Market for Babies Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives 2. Institutional Theory Discovers Agency 3. The Market and Industry of Reproductive Therapies Part 2: Empirical Studies 4. The Methodology of Study 5. Creating Institutions 6. Maintaining Institutions 7. Disrupting Institutions Part 3: Institutionalizing ART 8. Creating New Sociotechnical Reproductive Futures