Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot159710.32687/0869-866X-2025-33-2-211-218НеопределенThe ethical dilemmas of methodology of extra-corporal fertilization in the context of medicalization of reproduction: The reviewAkimovaNatalia Alexandrovnanot@bk.ruMedvedevaElena Nikolaevnanot@provid.edSevostyanovaOlga Yurievnanot@provid.edAndriyanovaElena Andreevnanot@provid.edThe Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The V. I. Razumovsky Saratov State Medical University” of Minzdrav of Russia, 410012, Saratov, Russia290420253320805202508052025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The modern biomedical science grants to humankind significant choice regarding reproductive function. In view of development of biomedical technologies man becomes a producer of one's own human nature that especially is manifested in area of genetic engineering and auxiliary reproductive technologies.<br />The article problematizes ethical social discourse on medicalization of human reproduction. The main ethical dilemmas occurring at application of procedure of and systematizes the ethical dilemmas that arise during the procedure of extra-corporal fertilization are considered. The occurring medicalization of feminine reproductive health is consequence of understanding of social life as legitimization of care of body on the part of medicine.<br />The researchers note dominance of biomedical approach to human reproduction. The important aspects of medicalization of female corporeality include such achievements of modern medicine as artificial insemination, extra-corporal fertilization, surrogate maternity, abortion. 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