When IVF Fails
When IVF Fails
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当试管婴儿失败时
DOI：
10.1057/9780230505704
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发表时间：
2004
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通讯作者：
Karen Throsby
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作者：
Karen Throsby
尽管几乎80%的试管婴儿周期都是不成功的，但这项技术的主要代表是它的成功。基于对经历过试管婴儿失败并且已经停止治疗的妇女和夫妇的广泛采访，并采取公开的女权主义方法，这本书探讨了试管婴儿失败的经历和解释方式。这本书认为，随着时间的推移，试管婴儿失败和治疗的结束必须仔细管理，以便在生殖规范性的深刻性别背景下将自我构建为“正常”。治疗失败在书中不仅被确定为试管婴儿经验的一个中心，但在很大程度上被排除在外，而且是一系列新的，更具争议的生殖和遗传技术的扩散。
In spite of the fact that almost eighty percent of all IVF cycles are unsuccessful, the dominant representations of the technology are of its success. Based on extensive interviews with women and couples who have undergone IVF unsuccessfully and who have since stopped treatment, and taking an overtly feminist approach, the book explores the ways in which IVF failure is experienced and accounted for. The book argues that IVF failure and the end of treatment have to be carefully managed over time in order to construct the self as' normal'in the profoundly gendered context of reproductive normativity. Treatment failure is identified in the book not only as a central, but largely excluded, aspect of the experience of IVF, but also of a proliferating range of new, more controversial reproductive and genetic technologies.