Patient-Centred IVF
Trudie Gerrits
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Description for Patient-Centred IVF
Hardback. This book places the patient-centred practices of a single clinic in a national context where ARTs are highly regulated ('Dutch IVF') and examines how this form of medicine co-shapes the experiences, views and decisions of the women and men using these technologies. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDN; JFMG; MBDC; MBNH4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 676.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Series
Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785332265
SKU
V9781785332265
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Ref
99-15
About Trudie Gerrits
Trudie Gerrits is Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands, where she is co-director of the Masters in Medical Anthropology and Sociology (MAS).
Reviews for Patient-Centred IVF
“The ethnographic perspective of the book offers a valuable insight into the limitations that patient-centred approaches offer to solving the issues of medicalization in the context of ART. What is more, the book provides a close look into the daily work of health care providers, which is extremely valuable as it offers a careful analysis of health care providers’ interactions ... Read more