Institutionalizing Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Role of Science, Professionalism, and Regulatory...

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Alexander Styhre (OPUniversity of Gothenburg, Sweden) Rebecka Arman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

Institutionalizing Assisted Reproductive Technologies

The Role of Science, Professionalism, and Regulatory Control

Alexander Styhre (OPUniversity of Gothenburg, Sweden), Rebecka Arman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

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Routledge
18 February 2016

Personal & public health; Reproductive medicine

Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

Reproductive medicine has been very successful at developing new therapies in recent years and people having difficulties conceiving have more options available to them than ever before. These developments have led to a new institutional landscape emerging and this innovative volume explores how health and social structures are being developed and reconfigured to take into account the increased use of assisted reproductive technologies, such as IVF treatments.

Using Sweden as a central case study, it explores how the process of institutionalizing new assisted reproductive technologies includes regulatory agencies, ethical committees, political bodies and discourses, scientific communities, patient and activists groups, and entrepreneurial activities in the existing clinics and new entrants to the industry. It draws on new theoretical developments in institutional theory and outlines how health innovations are always embedded in social relations including ethical, political, and financial concerns.

This book will be of interest to advanced students and academics in health management, science and technology studies, the sociology of health and illness and organisational theory.

By: Alexander Styhre (OPUniversity of Gothenburg Sweden), Rebecka Arman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781138806214
ISBN 10: 1138806218
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 18 February 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: The Science of Life and the Market for Babies Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives 2. Institutional Theory Discovers Agency 3. The Market and Industry of Reproductive Therapies Part 2: Empirical Studies 4. The Methodology of Study 5. Creating Institutions 6. Maintaining Institutions 7. Disrupting Institutions Part 3: Institutionalizing ART 8. Creating New Sociotechnical Reproductive Futures

Alexander Styhre is Professor and Chair of Organization Theory and Management at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Rebecka Arman is Assistant Professor of Organization Theory and Management at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.