Adjusting the analytical aperture: propositions for an integrated approach to the social study of reproductive technologies.

IF 1.3 4区医学 Q4 SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL Biosocieties Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-08-19 DOI:10.1057/s41292-021-00240-w

Victoria Boydell, Katharine Dow

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The ever-expanding availability of reproductive technologies, the continued roll-out of 'family planning' and maternity services across low- and middle-income settings and the rapid development of the fertility industry mean that it is more likely than ever that individuals, especially women and gender non-conforming people, will engage with more than one RT at some point in their life. These multiple engagements with RTs will affect users' expectations and uptake, as well as the technologies' availability, commercial success, ethical status and social meanings. We argue that an integrated approach to the study of RTs and their users not only makes for better research, but also more politically conscious research, which questions some of the ideological precepts that have led to reproduction being parcelled out into biomedical specialisations and a disproportionate focus on particular forms of reproduction in particular disciplines within public health and social science research. We offer this article as part of a wider movement in the study of reproduction and reproductive technologies, which takes inspiration from the reproductive justice framework to address forms of exclusion, discrimination and stratification that are perpetuated in the development and application of reproductive technologies and the ways in which they are studied and theorised.

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调整分析视角：关于生殖技术社会研究综合方法的建议。

生殖技术的可用性不断扩大，"计划生育 "和孕产服务在中低收入环境中的持续推广，以及生育产业的快速发展，都意味着个人，尤其是妇女和性别不符者，在其一生中的某个阶段接触不止一种生殖技术的可能性比以往任何时候都要大。这些与生殖技术的多重接触将影响用户的期望和吸收，以及技术的可用性、商业成功、伦理地位和社会意义。我们认为，采用综合方法研究生殖技术及其用户不仅能提高研究质量，还能提高研究的政治意识，质疑一些意识形态观念，这些观念导致生殖技术被分割成生物医学专业，公共卫生和社会科学研究中的特定学科过度关注特定形式的生殖技术。我们将这篇文章作为研究生殖和生殖技术的更广泛运动的一部分，该运动从生殖正义框架中获得灵感，以解决在生殖技术的发展和应用以及研究和理论化生殖技术的方式中长期存在的各种形式的排斥、歧视和分层问题。

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Biosocieties SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL-

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期刊介绍： BioSocieties is committed to the scholarly exploration of the crucial social, ethical and policy implications of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine. These developments are increasing our ability to control our own biology; enabling us to create novel life forms; changing our ideas of ‘normality’ and ‘abnormality’; transforming our understanding of personal identity, family relations, ancestry and ‘race’; altering our social and personal expectations and responsibilities; reshaping global economic opportunities and inequalities; creating new global security challenges; and generating new social, ethical, legal and regulatory dilemmas. To address these dilemmas requires us to break out from narrow disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences and humanities, and between these disciplines and the natural sciences, and to develop new ways of thinking about the relations between biology and sociality and between the life sciences and society. BioSocieties provides a crucial forum where the most rigorous social research and critical analysis of these issues can intersect with the work of leading scientists, social researchers, clinicians, regulators and other stakeholders. BioSocieties defines the key intellectual issues at the science-society interface, and offers pathways to the resolution of the critical local, national and global socio-political challenges that arise from scientific and biomedical advances. As the first journal of its kind, BioSocieties publishes scholarship across the social science disciplines, and represents a lively and balanced array of perspectives on controversial issues. In its inaugural year BioSocieties demonstrated the constructive potential of interdisciplinary dialogue and debate across the social and natural sciences. We are becoming the journal of choice not only for social scientists, but also for life scientists interested in the larger social, ethical and policy implications of their work. The journal is international in scope, spanning research and developments in all corners of the globe. BioSocieties is published quarterly, with occasional themed issues that highlight some of the critical questions and problematics of modern biotechnologies. Articles, response pieces, review essays, and self-standing editorial pieces by social and life scientists form a regular part of the journal.