Choice and the reproductive supermarket

a content analysis of documents produced by pharmaceutical corporation, Serono.

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Choice and the reproductive supermarket
Kelly Holloway
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Choice and the reproductive supermarket

a content analysis of documents produced by pharmaceutical corporation, Serono.

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This qualitative study explores the way infertility is constructed in documents produced by Serono, the top pharmaceutical company that markets reproductive technologies to couples with problems conceiving (www.serono-canada.ca). From a critical realist perspective, the study draws on feminist bioethics and social constructionism as theoretical models. Content analysis was used to examine patient brochures, a magazine supplement and a website. The major themes that emerged from this analysis are: Construction of Infertility, Infertility and Medical Treatment, and the Technologization of Infertility. The documents pose infertility as a problem deserving medical treatment by suggesting that biological birth is normal and natural, and that factors that thwart that process are abnormal and dysfunctional. Implicit is a subtle social agenda that 'normal' heterosexual partnerships require the ability to produce biological children. Given this dynamic, infertility deserves a medical cure. This cure is then linked to the development of New Reproductive Technologies.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-02, page: 0837.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Electronic version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

GERSTEIN MICROTEXT copy on microfiche (2 microfiches).

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123 leaves.
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123

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OL19217718M
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0494074809

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