Ideology and technology: the social context of procreative technology
Rothman, B.K.
Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine new York 65(3) 201-209; Discussion: 215-223
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0027-2507 PMID: 9615572 Document Number: 484519
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.