Transgressive technologies? Strategies of discursive containment in the representation and regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Michelle, Carolyn

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2006.03.009

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“…In de Lacey’s (2005) study, participants emphasized the “full bloodedness” or complete genetic relatedness of embryos, with associations of recognizable characteristics and conditions. This discourse underscores a need for access to genetic knowledge, with the argument that undesirable conditions may be avoided, controlled for, or treated (Johnson, 2003; Michelle, 2006).…”

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The Fate of Unused Embryos: Discourses, Action Possibilities, and Subject Positions

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Although in vitro fertilization (IVF) has offered hope to those struggling with infertility, it has also had some unintended consequences, including the fate of embryos that may be "surplus" to requirement following IVF treatment. The number of embryos in storage across the world is high, creating a dilemma for patients who need to make disposal decisions, as well as presenting an administrative and practical dilemma for clinics. Research has suggested that patients' views of the status of their embryo/s may affect their disposal decisions, and yet the nature of the links between views of the embryo and decisions to either donate or discard remain unclear. In this article, we engage in a discursive analysis of literature on disposal decisions. We discuss the range of ways in which embryos may be constructed, and demonstrate how these discourses make available or constrain particular action possibilities, and offer particular subject positions for patients. The analysis highlights the complexity of the relationship between embryo status and decision making, and may assist clinicians in supporting and guiding patients' decisions.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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The Fate of Unused Embryos: Discourses, Action Possibilities, and Subject Positions

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“…As Carolyn Michelle (2007: 641; see also Michelle, 2006; Petersen, 2001; Priest, 1994) writes, ‘news stories may actively “frame” issues in ways that legitimate particular understandings of them, while simultaneously excluding or downplaying other possible explanations, thereby narrowing the scope of public debate’. Human-interest stories are employed to make new technologies more meaningful for general audiences (Michelle, 2007).…”

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‘Now She’s Just an Ordinary Baby’: The Birth of IVF in the British Press

Dow

2018

Sociology

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The birth of Louise Brown, the first baby born through in vitro fertilisation (IVF), in England in 1978 attracted worldwide media attention. This article examines how the contemporary British news media framed this momentous event. Drawing on the example of the Daily Mail’s coverage, it focuses on the way in which the British press depicted Louise’s parents’ emotions, marital relationship and social class in a context of political and economic crisis and resurgent social conservatism. The British press framed the Browns as ordinary and respectable, noting their work ethic, family orientation and moral values. The article argues that the human-interest angle that the press used to represent this story created a dominant narrative in which IVF was simply a means of helping married heterosexual couples have babies and that this established a frame for subsequent depictions of IVF, as well as contributing to its rapid normalisation.

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“…With infertility medicine expanding in the late 20 th century, feminist scholars became increasingly critical of the medicalisation of reproduction. They saw it as patriarchal violence that resulted in the control, exploitation and objectification of women (for an overview see Michelle 2006). This analysis of objectification has, however, been challenged in more recent work that explores women's own experience of the technologies, notably Thompson (2005) (but see also Franklin 1997).…”

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Choreographies of sperm donations: Dilemmas of intimacy in lesbian couple donor conception

Nordqvist

2011

Social Science & Medicine

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Assisted conception involving donor insemination challenges cultural idioms of parenthood and family; there is now a growing body of work exploring how women and couples negotiate becoming a family in this way. But sperm donation also raises questions on the more intimate levels of sex, sexuality and sexual bodies, and these have received little sustained attention in the literature. Lesbian couples in the U.K. increasingly negotiate access to medicalised donor insemination, but many also conceive in informal arrangements with donors where they themselves negotiate proximity and contact with donors when retrieving donor sperm. I explore in this paper how lesbian couples manage and perceive sperm donations, how they seek to negotiate their intimate, sexual and bodily overtones, and how the medical and non-medical settings enable them to do this in different ways. I draw on empirical data from an interview study conducted from 2006 to 2009 in England and Wales comprising 25 lesbian couples. I suggest that sperm donation raises dilemmas of intimacy for lesbian couples, and that couples try to resolve such dilemmas by carefully and intentionally choreographing donation events through managing patterns of movement and action. The different institutional, medical and regulatory frameworks governing clinical and non-clinical sperm donation shape that management in significant and different ways. I argue that sperm donation choreographies enable couples to negotiate the private, sexual and intimate tensions surrounding sperm donations, and also the subjectivity of the sperm donor.

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Transgressive technologies? Strategies of discursive containment in the representation and regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Cited by 23 publications

References 39 publications

The Fate of Unused Embryos: Discourses, Action Possibilities, and Subject Positions

The Fate of Unused Embryos: Discourses, Action Possibilities, and Subject Positions

‘Now She’s Just an Ordinary Baby’: The Birth of IVF in the British Press

Choreographies of sperm donations: Dilemmas of intimacy in lesbian couple donor conception

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