Sciences & Beliefs in reproductive medicine: trajectories, perspectives and articulations among ART experts and users in the biomedical field in Argentina
Summary: The project aims to study the relationship between science and religion in Argentina from the Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ARTs) field. To this end, we explore the perspectives, practices, and processes of articulation of reproductive medicine and religion, attending to the trajectories of two main actors involved, experts and users of ART in Argentina. The main research question we seek to answer is: How do religion and reproductive medicine articulate in the perspectives and practices of ART experts and users? Contributing to the debates that propose focusing on the science and religion articulation and actors’ perspectives, the project explores two points of view on the reproductive process: a) Experts in the ART field, including health professionals beyond medicine (ART practitioners, fertility specialists, bioethicists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers) and b) ARTs users on a diversity of treatments (artificial insemination, IVF, ICSI, ART treatment with egg and sperm donor). In both cases,