Chapter 4 Politics of Conception: The State and Biomedicine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables and Figures viii
4. Preface: Test-Tube Conceptions ix
5. Acknowledgements xv
6. Introduction: Conceptualising Conceptions 1
7. Part I
8. Chapter 1 Fertile Conceptions: Culture and Infertility 41
9. Chapter 2 Gendered Conceptions: Stigma, Blame and Infertility 68
10. Part II
11. Chapter 3 Contested Conception: The Medical Politics of Test-Tube Babies 87
12. Chapter 4 Politics of Conception: The State and Biomedicine 108
13. Part III
14. Chapter 5 Changing Conceptions? ‘Adoption’ of Assisted Conception 135
15. Chapter 6 Supplementary Conception: The Other Mother 169
16. Part IV
17. Chapter 7 Long Road to Conception: Emotional and Financial Costs 189
18. Chapter 8 In Search of Conception Clinicians, Patients and Clinics 214
19. Afterword: Conceptions 243
20. Bibliography 253
21. Index 279