IVF policy and global/local politics: The making of multiple-embryo transfer regulation in Taiwan

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 725 - 732
• Main Author: Wu, Chia-Ling
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2012; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: Archives; Biological and medical sciences; Birth control; Embryo Transfer - methods; Embryo Transfer - standards; Embryos; England; Ethics; Europe; Female; Fertilization in Vitro; Global assemblage; Global Local Relationship; Great Britain; Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics; Health care policy; Health Policy; Human reproduction; Humans; In vitro fertilization; Interest Groups; Internationality; Interviews; Medical sciences; Medical technology; Miscellaneous; Models, Theoretical; Multiple-embryo transfer; Policy Making; Politics; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Pregnancy; Pregnancy, Multiple; Public health; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Regulation; Reproductive technology; Risk; Science Policy; Standardization; Sterility. Assisted procreation; Taiwan; United Kingdom; United States; Asia; Taiwan; Global assemblage; In-vitro fertilization; Taiwan; Multiple-embryo transfer; Standardization; Human; Multiple; Assisted procreation; Embryo transfer; Regulation(control); Health policy; Social medicine; Public health

This paper analyzes the regulatory trajectory of multiple-embryo transfer in in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in Taiwan. Taking a latecomer to policy-making as the case, it argues the importance of conceptualizing the global/local dynamics in policy-making for assisted reproductive technology (ART). The...