02622nam 2200493 450 991082037540332120180731043952.010.1515/9781785332272(CKB)3710000000840609(EBL)4405811(MiAaPQ)EBC4405811(DE-B1597)637081(DE-B1597)9781785332272(EXLCZ)99371000000084060920161017h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPatient-centred IVF bioethics and care in a Dutch clinic /Trudie GerritsNew York ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn,2016.©20161 online resource (371 p.)Fertility, Reproduction and SexualityDescription based upon print version of record.1-78533-226-0 1-78533-227-9 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapter and index.Studying ARTs : theory, context, the clinic and methods -- 'Dutch IVF' : legislation, guidelines and health insurances -- The couples and their quest for a child -- Daily practices in the patient-centred clinic -- Information and interpretation : risks and rates -- The body and visualizing technologies -- Gendered suffering and support -- Bioethics in practice.Contemporary Dutch policy and legislation facilitate the use of high quality, accessible and affordable assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) to all citizens in need of them, while at the same time setting some strict boundaries on their use in daily clinical practices. Through the ethnographic study of a single clinic in this national context, Patient-Centred IVF examines how this particular form of medicine, aiming to empower its patients, co-shapes the experiences, views and decisions of those using these technologies. Gerrits contends that to understand the use of reproductive technologies in practice and the complexity of processes of medicalization, we need to go beyond ‘easy assumptions’ about the hegemony of biomedicine and the expected impact of patient-centredness.Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality.Fertilization in vitroNetherlandsFertilization in vitro.176.2Gerrits Trudie1633304MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820375403321Patient-centred IVF3972983UNINA