Transforming social contracts: the social and cultural history of IVF in Denmark
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Transforming social contracts : the social and cultural history of IVF in Denmark. / Mohr, Sebastian; Koch, Lene.
In: Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online, Vol. 2, 06.2016, p. 88-96.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Transforming social contracts
T2 - the social and cultural history of IVF in Denmark
AU - Mohr, Sebastian
AU - Koch, Lene
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - The introduction of IVF in Denmark was accompanied by social transformations: contestations of medical authority, negotiations of who might access reproductive biomedicine and changes in individual and social identity due to reproductive technologies. Looking at the making of Danish IVF, this article sketches its social and cultural history by revisiting the legal, medical, technological and social developments that characterized the introduction of IVF in Denmark as well as by contextualizing the social research on the uses and impacts of IVF carried out in the 1980s and 1990s within these developments. The making of Danish IVF is presented as a transformative event in so far as it changed Denmark from being a society concerned about the social consequences of reproductive technologies to a moral collective characterized by a joined sense of responsibility for Denmark's procreative future.
AB - The introduction of IVF in Denmark was accompanied by social transformations: contestations of medical authority, negotiations of who might access reproductive biomedicine and changes in individual and social identity due to reproductive technologies. Looking at the making of Danish IVF, this article sketches its social and cultural history by revisiting the legal, medical, technological and social developments that characterized the introduction of IVF in Denmark as well as by contextualizing the social research on the uses and impacts of IVF carried out in the 1980s and 1990s within these developments. The making of Danish IVF is presented as a transformative event in so far as it changed Denmark from being a society concerned about the social consequences of reproductive technologies to a moral collective characterized by a joined sense of responsibility for Denmark's procreative future.
KW - Denmark
KW - gender
KW - reproductive health services
KW - social history
KW - sociality
KW - state
U2 - 10.1016/j.rbms.2016.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.rbms.2016.09.001
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85008626256
VL - 2
SP - 88
EP - 96
JO - Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
JF - Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
SN - 2405-6618
ER -
ID: 179209962