Reproductive technologies - a new terrain for the sociology of technology, Maureen McNeil whose mind over whose matter? women, in-vitro fertilization and the development of scientific knowledge, Christine Crowe the normalization of a new reproductive technology, Annette Burfoot the depersonalization of women through the administration of in-vitro fertilization, Deborah Lynn Steinberg the management of uncertainty in obstetric practice - ultrasonography and in-vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, Frances V. Price recreating the family? policy considerations relating to the "new" reproductive technologies, Erica Haimes conflicting concerns - the political context of recent embryo research policy in Britain, Edward Yoxen deconstructing "desperateness" - the social construction of infertility in popular representations of new reproductive technologies, Sarah Franklin.