Consenting to materialities: the case of assisted human reproduction
Abstract
Present in the relational field of life, materialities include speech, written texts, corporeality, machines, architecture, institutions, in short, living beings and devices that enter into relationships and give rise to different meanings and social orders. In this work, using illustrations extracted from the doctoral thesis (Menegon, 2003) and the text by Cussins (1998), we discuss materialities involved in the practice of informed consent, considering three dimensions: materialities that mark the historical trajectories of consent in health; materialities that are intertwined in the texts of consent for assisted human reproduction; materialities engendered in the relationships of the field of assisted reproduction. This reflection is based on the dialogue between the approach to discursive practices (Spink, 1999), the notion of materialities used by Hacking (2000) in his discussion of matrix, and by authors aligned with Actor Network Theory, including John Law (1994, 1999).
Keywords
Discursive practices, Materialities, Informed consent, Assisted reproductionReferences
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