Wahlberg Ayo
Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Reprod Biomed Soc Online. 2016 Oct 5;2:97-107. doi: 10.1016/j.rbms.2016.09.002. eCollection 2016 Jun.
How can it be that China, with its history of restrictive family planning policies, is today home to some of the world's largest IVF clinics, carrying out as many as 30,000 cycles annually? This article addresses how IVF was developed in China during the early 1980s, becoming routinized at the same time as one of the world's most comprehensive family planning programmes aimed at preventing birth was being rolled out. IVF was not merely imported into China; rather it was experimentally developed within China into a form suitable for its restrictive family planning regulations. As a result, IVF and other procedures of assisted reproductive technology have settled alongside contraception, sterilization and abortion as yet another technology of birth control.
中国曾实施过严格的计划生育政策，如今却拥有一些全球规模最大的试管婴儿诊所，每年开展多达30000个周期的试管婴儿手术，这是怎么回事呢？本文探讨了20世纪80年代初试管婴儿技术在中国是如何发展起来的，当时正值全球最全面的旨在防止生育的计划生育项目之一在推行，而试管婴儿技术与此同时也实现了常规化。试管婴儿技术并非简单地引入中国；相反，它在中国经过试验发展成了一种适合其严格计划生育规定的形式。结果，试管婴儿技术及其他辅助生殖技术与避孕、绝育和堕胎一道，成为了又一种节育技术。
