title: [Human life, the fruit of a meeting -- in connection with couple infertility].
abstract: Reproductive Medicine is first seen in the light of Michel Foucault's work, The Birth of the Clinic. Archaeology of the Medical Perception. Then, the different levels of the procreative meeting are described: emotional, sexual and cultural meetings. These levels may be in conflicting situation in infertility. This is illustrated by some clinical observations of infertility. The endogamic society such as described by Germaine Tillion in The Republic of Cousins has been faced with recessive autosomic diseases that may cause a decrease of fertility for some individuals and for the ethnic group. One particular observation provides an illustration thereof.
authors.affiliation: Maternité, CHU Pellegrin, place Amélie-Raba-Léon, Bordeaux, France. monique.commenges@chu-bordeaux.fr
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Commenges-Ducos
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology*