Creating Human Life Itself: The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion
In the past decades, reproductive biomedicine has quickly developed and become widespread, producing a number of new options that have challenged the definition of kinship and parenthood, bodies and gender relations and even of nature and life itself. Reproductive biomedicine is embedded in the ongo...
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| description | In the past decades, reproductive biomedicine has quickly developed and become widespread, producing a number of new options that have challenged the definition of kinship and parenthood, bodies and gender relations and even of nature and life itself. Reproductive biomedicine is embedded in the ongoing construction of our wider social imagination, producing a re-imagining of the “facts of life”. Here, we can see how biomedical knowledge fosters a reframing of material bodily tissues. The same biological material can assume a different ontological status according to the sociomaterial processes in which it is embedded. Exploring the process of bioobjectification of embryos in an Italian context, this introduction describes how the equation between embryos and human life itself emerges inside and outside of labs and illustrates how the biomedical conceptualization of embryos is strongly dominated by moral and ethical concerns. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-27f3141c9e9846b7ae0acbd5179490c62024-01-22T10:27:46ZengUniversity of Bologna – Dipartimento di Filosofia e ComunicazioneTecnoscienza2038-34602013-07-014172110.6092/issn.2038-3460/1708315442Creating Human Life Itself: The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and ReligionManuela Perrotta0Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyIn the past decades, reproductive biomedicine has quickly developed and become widespread, producing a number of new options that have challenged the definition of kinship and parenthood, bodies and gender relations and even of nature and life itself. Reproductive biomedicine is embedded in the ongoing construction of our wider social imagination, producing a re-imagining of the “facts of life”. Here, we can see how biomedical knowledge fosters a reframing of material bodily tissues. The same biological material can assume a different ontological status according to the sociomaterial processes in which it is embedded. Exploring the process of bioobjectification of embryos in an Italian context, this introduction describes how the equation between embryos and human life itself emerges inside and outside of labs and illustrates how the biomedical conceptualization of embryos is strongly dominated by moral and ethical concerns.https://tecnoscienza.unibo.it/article/view/17083assisted reproductive technologiesembryoontological shiftingbio-objectificationhuman life itself |
| spellingShingle | Manuela Perrotta Creating Human Life Itself: The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion Tecnoscienza assisted reproductive technologies embryo ontological shifting bio-objectification human life itself |
| title | Creating Human Life Itself: The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion |
| title_full | Creating Human Life Itself: The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion |
| title_fullStr | Creating Human Life Itself: The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Creating Human Life Itself: The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion |
| title_short | Creating Human Life Itself: The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion |
| title_sort | creating human life itself the emerging meanings of reproductive cells among science state and religion |
| topic | assisted reproductive technologies embryo ontological shifting bio-objectification human life itself |
| url | https://tecnoscienza.unibo.it/article/view/17083 |
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