Acknowledgements

Introduction 

Part 1 Motherhood, Medicine and Men: Who’s in Control?

 1 In vitro fertilisation: man makes the embryo 

2 The masculine dream of quality control: genetic engineering

3 Woman as a dissolving capsule: the challenge of fetal personhood

4 The depersonalisation of birth mothers: socalled ‘surrogacy’

Part 2 Setting the Context for Reproductive Control

5 The values of medical science 

6 ‘Reprospeak’: the language of the new reproductive technologies

7 Motherhood and infertility: medical science co-opts ideology and desire

8 Rights, responsibilities and resistance 

Notes and References 

Index