Les noves tecnologies de reproducció i els reptes a la maternitat / paternitat

Abstract

New Reproductive Technologies (NRT) is the general name given to the multiple technological devices created and developed in the last thirty years in the area of reproductive medicine. They address different aspects of the reproductive process from conception to birth. These technologies present continuities with some other technologies of reproductive control, but also introduce novelties which have the potential for challenging our understanding of reproduction, motherhood, parenthood and family. The need for the NRT and especially for In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) has been created through complex discursive devices. In this article we will be looking at some elements of how IVF has been legitimised, and how this process has involved (and carries as a consequence) the creation and typification of new subjects (the infertile, among others), of a disease (infertility) and of a need (the need for a biological child).