Reproductive technology is typically discussed in the future tense.
Yet doctors have always treated involuntary childlessness. This
book looks at the recent history of infertility and the different
ways medicine has treated it. It traces the reluctance to allow
infertility a past to a new tension that has emerged between
utopian and anti-utopian fears about the growth rate and
composition of population.
"The Stork and the Syringe" argues that although doctors'
approach to infertility is formed in response to the exigencies of
the political economy of medical practice, it also accommodates a
persistent gender bias: the tendency to regard women's bodies as
inviting intervention and men's as demanding caution. This bias is
manifest in relation to gametes (eggs and sperm), sex hormones, in
the form of medical investigations and treatment, and the frequency
and enthusiasm with which the latter are carried out. Departures
from this theme are rare and controversial, as the history of
artificial insemination using donor semen demonstrates.
This book is a major contribution to the history and sociology
of reproduction, fertility, population and medicine.
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