TY - JOUR
T1 - The birth and routinization of IVF in China
AU - Wahlberg, Ayo
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - How can it be that China, with its history of restrictive family planning policies, is today home to some of the world's largest IVF clinics, carrying out as many as 30,000 cycles annually? This article addresses how IVF was developed in China during the early 1980s, becoming routinized at the same time as one of the world's most comprehensive family planning programmes aimed at preventing birth was being rolled out. IVF was not merely imported into China; rather it was experimentally developed within China into a form suitable for its restrictive family planning regulations. As a result, IVF and other procedures of assisted reproductive technology have settled alongside contraception, sterilization and abortion as yet another technology of birth control.
AB - How can it be that China, with its history of restrictive family planning policies, is today home to some of the world's largest IVF clinics, carrying out as many as 30,000 cycles annually? This article addresses how IVF was developed in China during the early 1980s, becoming routinized at the same time as one of the world's most comprehensive family planning programmes aimed at preventing birth was being rolled out. IVF was not merely imported into China; rather it was experimentally developed within China into a form suitable for its restrictive family planning regulations. As a result, IVF and other procedures of assisted reproductive technology have settled alongside contraception, sterilization and abortion as yet another technology of birth control.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - assisted reproduction
KW - IVF
KW - routinization
KW - birth control
KW - family planning
KW - China
U2 - 10.1016/j.rbms.2016.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.rbms.2016.09.002
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2405-6618
VL - 2
SP - 97
EP - 107
JO - Reproductive Biomedicine and Society
JF - Reproductive Biomedicine and Society
ER -