Razões técnicas e efeitos simbólicos da incorporação do "progresso tecnocientífico": Reprodução assistida e adoção de crianças

Abstract

Technological options are also political options, but the political implications of technological options are obscured by discourses, practices and decisions that present themselves as strictly technical. When considering the case of assisted reproduction (AR), we observe that the scientific development is presented as a technical response to a "natural and atavistic" wish to go through the bodily experience of pregnancy, childbearing and nurturing, anchored in the naturalization of the desire for reproduction. However, such questions are reconsidered in this article due to the specificity and singularity of the field. For our analysis, we examine AR and adoption. Preliminary results show that AR procedures have had further developments besides the acquirement of a child, gaining a new market niche: the symbolic function of elaborating the mourning for the biological child, considered necessary for maturing the project of child adoption.