Human cloning in the media: from science fiction to science practice
In: Genetics and society
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In: Genetics and society
In: BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 143-147
ISSN: 1745-8560
In: Qualitative research, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 220-222
ISSN: 1741-3109
In: Journal for cultural research, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 393-408
ISSN: 1740-1666
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 1010-1016
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Qualitative research, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 423-424
ISSN: 1741-3109
In: Feminist theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 191-210
ISSN: 1741-2773
This article provides an analysis of the relationships between IVF and therapeutic cloning, as they played out in the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority consultation of 2006: Donating Eggs for Research: Safeguarding Donors. We develop an account of current developments in IVF and cloning which foregrounds the role of mediation in structuring the discursive context in which they are constituted. We foreground the imperative of choice and the promise of cures as key features of this context. We also argue that the intercorporeal exchanges of IVF are materially restructured in relation to cloning research, despite their represented similitude in the consultation document. The discourse of choice in relation to reproductive technologies has become entrenched over the last twenty years. In relation to therapeutic cloning, it has been coupled with, and strengthened by, the discourse of cures. In examining relations between IVF and cloning with specific attention to both mediating imaginaries, and intercorporeal exchanges, we develop an analysis that displaces the rhetoric of choice and cures. This makes visible the limited subject positions available, and the limited possibilities for responding critically to the consultation. Identifying women as the gendered subjects of this consultation and placing intercorporeality at the centre of our analysis illuminates the interdependency of women undergoing IVF, cloning science and the governance of embryo research in the UK.