2018 - Franco Angeli
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The medicalization of infertility and new reproductive technologies : the case of infertile couples in Oran (Algeria)
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- Our article examines the meaning and the representations of some couples who have resorted to reproductive technologies of medical assistance to procreation in Algeria. We explore the way in which these couples think and conceive the medicalization which applies to human begetting and reproduction, with particular emphasis on those aspects of their experience which they consider essential. Through the notion of social representations, the article shows that Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) will meet desire of child and allow women to comply with their expected role. The social pressure in favor of procreation and the medical injunction to the diagnosis made to the patients have only increased and strengthened the medicalization of reproduction. [Publishers' text].
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Salute e società : XVII, 2, 2018-
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ISSN: 1972-4845
KEYWORDS
- Reproductive technologies, infertility, medicalization, body, representations, norms
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In this issue
- Introduction
- Gender dynamics, sensitive issues and ethical considerations in joint interviews with Dutch couples undergoing fertility treatments
- The medicalization of infertility and new reproductive technologies : the case of infertile couples in Oran (Algeria)
- Agencies and challenged stakes involving ARTs in Mozambique : local and transnational aspects of access, provision and use.
- The medicalisation of infertility : men's discourse between marginalisation and reproduction
- Mapping socio-technical controversies about same-sex couples' access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies in France and Portugal
- Regulation and un-regulation of LGBT reproductive and parenting rights : the case of Italy and Belgium
- Surrogacy Arrangements : Choices and Matches between Third Parties and Italian Gay Fathers
- L'assistente sociale in psichiatria : riflessioni ai margini di una professione
- Riflessioni in merito alla rivelazione del coming-out tardivo di uno dei genitori
- La salute delle persone senza dimora : una sfida per l'integrazione sociosanitaria