Test tube families why the fertility market needs legal regulation
The treatment plan for legal issues -- The treatment plan for creating babies -- Market regulation -- Parenting regulation -- Donating to parenthood -- Donor identity -- Barriers to conception -- Expensive dreams -- What is wrong with technology? -- Baby steps : going to market -- Five parent famili...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY u.a.
New York Univ. Press
2009
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The treatment plan for legal issues -- The treatment plan for creating babies -- Market regulation -- Parenting regulation -- Donating to parenthood -- Donor identity -- Barriers to conception -- Expensive dreams -- What is wrong with technology? -- Baby steps : going to market -- Five parent families? : a proposition -- Finding out. The birth of the first test tube baby in 1978 focused attention on the sweeping advances in assisted reproductive technology (ART), which is now a multi-billion-dollar business in the United States. Sperm and eggs are bought and sold in a market that has few barriers to its skyrocketing growth. While ART has allowed thousands of people to create new families, the use of someone else's genetic materials raises complex legal and public policy issues that touch on technological anxiety, eugenics, reproductive autonomy, identity, and family structure. How should the use of gametic material be regulated? Should recipients be able to choose the "best" sperm and eggs? Should a child ever be able to discover the identity of her gamete donor? Who can claim parental rights? ... (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag) |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-288) and index |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 295 S. |
| ISBN: | 0814716822 0-8147-1682-2 9780814716823 978-0-8147-1682-3 |