title: What the king can not see.
abstract: This paper contrasts the ways in which the physician-scientist developing in vitro fertilization ("the king") sees the world and the way women experience it. It challenges the truth of what the king sees: i.e., that women have a desperate will to be mothers that must be fulfilled at all costs; that the way to make infertile women mothers is through the use of new reproductive technologies; that IVF programs are quite successful and that women who enter these programs actually come away with babies.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D012098:Reproduction