Psychosocial discontinuities introduced by the new reproductive technologies

✍ Scribed by Professor Robert Snowden

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 132 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1052-9284
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1298(199807/08)8:4<249::aid-casp489>3.0.co;2-l

✦ Synopsis

The introduction of the new reproductive technologies has brought about a separation of the experience of reproduction from a previously necessary act of sexual intercourse between a fertile male and a fertile female. This has brought in its train the need for new ways of thinking about the relationship between procreation, reproduction and parenting. Psychosocial research into child±parent, male±female and kin relationships resulting from the use of the new reproductive technologies has value both in terms of its own intrinsic interest and also in terms of insights provided into what has been traditionally portrayed as the normal' reproductive process. This contribution to the Special Issue serves as a general introduction to the topic by presenting a discontinuity' model intended to provide a context in which psychosocial research into the provision and use of the new reproductive technologies could be explored.