Medically assited human reproduction in Mexico. A perspective form the body and emotions

Abstract

In this article I present and review some of the most relevant challenges that social disciplines have raised
about medically assisted human reproduction. I accompanied this review from the perspective of hope to
understand phenomena such as the medicalization of reproduction and the transformations in social order
as a result of assisted reproduction techniques. I recover this emotion from Adrián Scribano's proposal
(2023) to analyze hope in two senses. One of them has to do with how biomedicine commodifies the
idea of reproduction and offers the hope of procreation. In a second sense, I think of hope as an emotion
that users of these reproductive techniques construct to sustain their decision to become mothers. The
discipline required to attend medical appointments, carry out the treatment indicated by the doctor,
change eating habits, lifestyles, face family and social conflicts and emotional changes, among others, are
examples of interstitial practices that allow us to observe and analyze the changes at the social, cultural,
family composition and gender levels that are taking shape as a result of these techniques.