title: Ideology and technology: the social context of procreative technology.
abstract: Biomedical practices and research in procreation are shaped by three ideologies deeply rooted in American society: patriarchy with its control of women's bodies in the interest of men's procreative concerns and with its focus on 'seeds' and therefore genetics; technology as an ideology of efficiency, productivity, rationality, and control; and capitalism both as an ideology and as a practice, a mechanism that markets technologies of procreation.
authors.affiliation: Baruch College, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Rothman
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D010684:Philosophy; D011056:Political Systems; D012099:Reproductive Techniques; D012930:Social Dominance; D012945:Social Values; D013533:Gestational Carriers