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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">J Reprod Infert</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">arij001</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Reproduction &amp; Infertility</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">2228-5482</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2251-676X</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Avicenna Research Institute</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">jri314</article-id>
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        <article-title>Surrogacy: Medicalization of Motherhood</article-title>
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        <contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ghazi Tabatabaie</surname><given-names>Mahmood</given-names></name></contrib><aff>Department of Demography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Vedadhir</surname><given-names>Abu Ali</given-names></name></contrib><aff>Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran</aff></contrib-group>
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      <volume>9</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>144</fpage>
      <lpage>165</lpage>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>1</day>
          <month>7</month>
          <year>2008</year>
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        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>1</day>
          <month>7</month>
          <year>2008</year>
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      Introduction: Surrogacy is one of the important new reproductive technosciences that contributes to medicalization of motherhood, providing an alternative method to natural fertility as well as a resolution to infertility. According to sociologists, medicalization is a multidimensional process by which natural and non-medical problems or conditions become defined, treated and managed as medical problems, using specialized vocabulary, professional approaches, particular instru-ments and interventions techniques. Reviewing socially constructed nature of surrogacy and its various social aspects and implications, this article shows how surrogacy serves to turn mother-hood, a natural and vital experience in women’s life, to the growing process of medicalization.
Materials &amp; Methods: This paper seeks to provide a sociological analysis of the constructionist
nature and implications of surrogacy by reviewing the body of knowledge and literature developed in sociology. Drawing on the notion of medicalization , the paper is to show how surrogacy has contributed  and continues to  contribute to the medicalization of motherhood.
Results: Sociological analyses show that the alternative methods to natural fertility or new paths to cure infertility including surrogacy are socially constructed and have numerous and far-reach-ing sociological aspects and implications. The novel technosciences like surrogacy play a central role in dealing with, redefinition and accordingly construction of human problems and experience-es. Surrogacy, inter alia, introduces the new form of medicalization of motherhood by blurring the distinction between what is natural and what is made by mankind on the subject of motherhood.
Conclusion: Like most of new medical and reproductive technosciences, surrogacy provides a new configuration of women’s lives and motherhood in particular that can be primarily characterized by medicalization or transformation of motherhood into jurisdiction of medicine.

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