| Samenvatting: | Exploding the myth of "new hope for the infertile,"The Mother Machine is a thorough, rigorously documented examination of the "new reproductive methods - artificial insemination, embryo transfer, in vitro fertilization, sex predetermination - and a political analysis of the underlying assumptions and aims of the "pharmacrats" who are conducting and implementing them. Drawing on extensive interviews with key participants (including researchers, patients, and clinic personnel), careful reading of the medical literature, and her broad knowledge of feminist scholarship in such areas as health care, anthropology, and ethics, the author details the historical background and methods of each technology, the risks involved for both the woman and the embryo, the social effects, and how the researchers themselves envision the use of these revolutionary techniques. Throughout this provocative and richly textured book, Corea makes evident that, much more than a healing art, medicine is also a method of social control and political rule. |
| Trefwoorden: | menselijke voortplanting, politiek, kunstmatige inseminatie, sociale aspecten, menselijkheid, vrouwenrechten, vrouwen, vruchtbaarheid, in vitro fertilisatie, technologie, gezondheidszorg, ethiek, medische techniek, |