Patient-Centred IVF Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic

Contemporary Dutch policy and legislation on new reproductive technologies have shaped daily clinical practices. In recent years, policy has focused on providing accessible and high quality treatment to its citizens with fertility problems. This book places the patient-centred practices of a single clinic in a national context where ARTs are highly regulated (‘Dutch IVF’) and examines how this form of medicine co-shapes the experiences, views and decisions of the women and men using these technologies. To understand the use of medical technology in practice and the complexity of processes of medicalization, we need to go beyond ‘easy assumptions’ about the hegemony of biomedicine. Rather, this study argues that closer attention the multiple dynamics is required to fully understand these processes.