Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-178) and index.
Introduction: A question of context -- Ch. 1. Beyond expectation: clinical practices and clinical concerns -- Ch. 2. Explicit connections: ethnographic enquiry in north-west England -- Ch. 3. Negotiated limits: interviews in south-east England -- Ch. 4. Making representations: the parliamentary debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act -- Ch. 5. Regulation, substitution and possibility -- Postscript: A relational view