Technologies of procreation : kinship in the age of assisted conception
by Jeanette Edwards
Language: English
New York : Routledge, 1999.
[xiv], 236 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0415170559 ; 9780415170550
Summary: Technologies of Procreation brings a fresh approach to the analysis of the social and cultural implications of assisted conception technologies. It explores how these techniques create the potential for a redefinition of relationships, because it is now possible to create life on behalf of another person. This second edition presents significant new material that enhances the original argument. By drawing on ethnographic studies, household interviews, and debates in government and among clinicians, the authors offer an insightful examination of the transformations of parenthood, procreation and kinship in the context of new reproductive technologies. Successfully bridging the gap between medical technology and cultural values, this book is a welcome addition to the growing field of medical anthropology.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Technologies-Procreation-Kinship-Assisted-Conception/dp/0415170567
Making a good life : an ethnography of nature, ethics, and reproduction
by Katharine Dow
Language: English
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016].
ISBN: 9780691167480 ; 0691167486
Summary: Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies. In an era of heightened scrutiny about parenting and reproduction, fears about environmental degradation, and the rise of the biotechnology industry, Katharine Dow delves into the reproductive ethics of those who do not have a personal stake in assisted reproductive technologies, but who are building lives inspired and influenced by environmentalism and concerns about the natural world's future. Moving away from experiences of infertility treatments tied to the clinic and laboratory, Dow instead explores reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies as topics of public concern and debate, and she examines how people living in a coastal village in rural Scotland make ethical decisions and judgments about these matters. In particular, Dow engages with people's ideas about nature and naturalness, and how these relate to views about parenting and building stable environments for future generations. Taking into account the ways daily responsibilities and commitments are balanced with moral values, Dow suggests there is still much to uncover about reproductive ethics.
Analyzing how ideas about reproduction intersect with wider ethical struggles, Making a Good Life offers a new approach to researching, thinking, and writing about nature, ethics, and reproduction.
Available: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10760.html
Transnational reproduction : race, kinship, and commercial surrogacy in india
by Daisy Deomampo
Language: English
New York : New York University Press, 2016.
ISBN: 1479804215 ; 9781479804214
Summary: Transnational Reproduction traces the relationships among Western aspiring parents, Indian surrogates, and egg donors from around the world. In the early 2010s India was one of the top providers of surrogacy services in the world. Drawing on interviews with commissioning parents, surrogates, and egg donors as well as doctors and family members, Daisy Deomampo argues that while the surrogacy industry in India offers a clear example of “stratified reproduction”—the ways in which political, economic, and social forces structure the conditions under which women carry out physical and social reproductive labor—it also complicates that concept as the various actors in this reproductive work struggle to understand their relationships to one another.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Transnational-Reproduction-Commercial-Surrogacy-Anthropologies/dp/1479804215
Making bodies, persons, and families : normalising reproductive technologies in Russia, Switzerland, and Germany
by Willemijn de Jong; Olga Tkach, editors
Language: English
Zürich : Lit ; London : Global [UK distributor] ; Piscataway, NJ : Transaction Publishers [North American distributor], ©2009.
248 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9783643800206 ; 3643800207
Summary: Since Louise Brown was born in 1978, "artificial fertilisation" has become widely practiced. The far-reaching social implications of these procedures are an understudied phenomenon in Switzerland and Russia. Public acceptance of in vitro fertilisation is increasing, but to have a child with this technology, and without sex, is still often imbued with secrecy and taboos. The book sheds light on the cultural and social production of gendered bodies, persons and families in Russia, Switzerland and Germany in the context of reproductive technologies, with a special focus on normalisation practices.
Available: http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-80020-6
Cyborg babies : from techno-sex to techno-tots
by Robbie Davis-Floyd; Joseph Dumit, editors
Language: English
New York : Routledge, 1998.
358 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0415916038 ; 9780415916035
Summary: Explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. The text argues that in aspects of childhood from foetuses scanned electronically to wired toddlers, children are being rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture.
Available: https://www.routledge.com/Cyborg-Babies-From-Techno-Sex-to-Techno-Tots/Davis-Floyd-Dumit/p/book/9780415916042
Globalization and transnational surrogacy in India : outsourcing life
by Sayantani DasGupta; Shamita Das Dasgupta, editors
Language: English
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014] ©2014.
xviii, 258 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780739187425 ; 0739187422
Summary: From computer support and hotel reservations to laboratory results and radiographic interpretations, it seems everything can be ‘outsourced’ in our globalized world. One would not think so with parenthood, however, especially motherhood, as it is a fundamental activity humans have historically preserved as personal and private. In our modern age, however, the advent and accessibility of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and the ease with which they have traversed global borders, has fundamentally altered the meaning of childbearing and parenting. In the twenty-first century, parenthood is no longer achieved only through gestation, adoption, or traditional surrogacy, but also via assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), where science and technology play lead roles. Furthermore, in a globalized world economy, where the movement and transfer of people and commodities are increasing to serve the interests of capitalism, gamete donation and surrogate birth can traverse innumerable geographic, socio-economic, racialized, and political borderlands. Thus, reproduction itself can be outsourced. This edited volume explores one specific aspect of the new assisted reproductive technologies: gestational surrogacy and how its practice is changing the traditional concept of parenthood across the globe. The phenomenon of transnational surrogacy has given rise to a thriving international industry where money is being ‘legally’ exchanged for babies and ‘reproductive labor’ has taken on a lucrative commercial tone. Yet, law, research, and activism are barely aware of this experience and are still playing catch-up with rapidly changing on-the-ground realities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays assuages the dearth of knowledge and addresses significant issues in transnational commercial gestational surrogacy as it takes shape in a peculiar relation between the West (primarily the United States) and India.
Available: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739187425/Globalization-and-Transnational-Surrogacy-in-India-Outsourcing-Life#
Donor insemination : International social science perspectives
by Ken Daniels; Erica Haimes, editors
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
185 p.
ISBN: 0521497094 ; 9780521497091
Summary: Donor insemination or DI is the oldest and most widely practiced form of assisted conception. Until now, it has been assessed largely from a medical perspective. This book brings together an international group of social scientists to discuss the social, cultural, political and practical dimensions of DI, relating it to the wider debates about fertility treatment. Contributors consider the experience of DI from the viewpoints of all the parties involved, including those treated, the donors, the clinicians, and the children of DI.
Available: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/sociology/sociology-science-and-medicine/donor-insemination-international-social-science-perspectives
Marginalized reproduction : ethnicity, infertility and reproductive technologies
by Lorraine Culley; Nicky Hudson; Floor Van Rooij, editors
Language: English
London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.
xii, 207 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781844075768 ; 1844075761
Summary: Worldwide, over 75 million people are involuntarily childless, a devastating experience for many with significant consequences for the social and psychological well-being of women in particular. Despite greater levels of infertility and strong cultural meanings attached to having children, little attention has been paid politically or academically to the needs of minority ethnic women and men. This groundbreaking volume is the first to highlight the ways in which diverse ethnic, cultural and religious identities impact upon understandings of technological solutions for infertility and associated treatment experiences within Western societies. It offers a corrective to the dominance of the narratives of hegemonic groups in infertility research. The collection begins with a discussion of fertility prevalence and access to treatment for minorities in the West and considers some of the key methodological challenges for social research on ethnicity and infertility. Drawing on primary research from the US, the UK, Eire, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia, the book then turns the spotlight onto the ways in which minority status and cultural and religious mores might impact on the experience of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies. It argues that more equitable access to culturally competent assisted conception services should be an essential component of a transformatory politics of infertility.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Marginalized-Reproduction-Infertility-Reproductive-Technologies/dp/041584942X
Surrogate motherhood : international perspectives
by Rachel Cook; Shelley Day Sclater; Felicity Kaganas, editors
Language: English
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2003.
xiii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781841132556 ; 1841132551
Summary: This multi-disciplinary book explores legal, ethical, social, psychological and practical aspects of surrogate motherhood in Britain and abroad.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Surrogate-Motherhood-International-Shelley-Sclater/dp/1841132551
Islam and new kinship : reproductive technology and the shariah in Lebanon
by Morgan Clarke
Language: English
New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
x, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781845454326 ; 1845454324
Summary: Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religious authority in the region through a combination of in-depth field research in Lebanon and an exhaustive survey of the Islamic legal literature. Lebanon, home to both Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities, provides a valuable site through which to explore the overall dynamism and diversity of global Islamic debate. As this book shows, Muslim perspectives focus on the moral propriety of such controversial procedures as the use of donor sperm and eggs as well as surrogacy arrangements, which are allowed by some authorities using surprising and innovative legal arguments. These arguments challenge common stereotypes of the rigidity and conservatism of Islamic law and compel us to question conventional contrasts between ‘liberal’ and Islamic notions of moral freedom, as well as the epistemological assumptions of anthropology’s own ‘new kinship studies’. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Islam and the impact of reproductive technology on the global social imaginary.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=clarkeislam
The new kinship : constructing donor-conceived families
by Naomi R. Cahn
Language: English
New York : New York University Press, 2013.
x, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780814772034 ; 081477203X
Summary: No federal law in the United States requires that egg or sperm donors or recipients exchange any information with the offspring that result from the donation. Donors typically enter into contracts with fertility clinics or sperm banks which promise them anonymity. The parents may know the donor’s hair color, height, IQ, college, and profession; they may even have heard the donor’s voice. But they don’t know the donor’s name, medical history, or other information that might play a key role in a child’s development. And, until recently, donor-conceived offspring typically didn’t know that one of their biological parents was a donor. But the secrecy surrounding the use of donor eggs and sperm is changing. And as it does, increasing numbers of parents and donor-conceived offspring are searching for others who share the same biological heritage. When donors, recipients, and “donor kids” find each other, they create new forms of families that exist outside of the law. The New Kinship details how families are made and how bonds are created between families in the brave new world of reproductive technology. Naomi Cahn, a nationally-recognized expert on reproductive technology and the law, shows how these new kinship bonds dramatically exemplify the ongoing cultural change in how we think about family. The issues Cahn explores in this book will resonate with anyone—and everyone—who has struggled with questions of how to define themselves in connection with their own biological, legal, or social families.
Available: http://nyupress.org/books/9780814772034/
Test tube families : why the fertility market needs legal regulation
by Naomi R. Cahn
Language: English
New York : New York University Press, ©2009.
viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780814716823 ; 0814716822
Summary: 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 been an invaluable gift to thousands of people, creating new families, the use of someone else’s genetic material 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?
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Test-Tube-Families-Fertility-Regulation/dp/0814716822
Reproduction, globalization, and the state : new theoretical and ethnographic perspectives
by C. H. Browner; Carolyn Fishel Sargent, editors
Language: English
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
293 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780822349419 ; 0822349418
Summary: Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Based on research in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Western Europe, their fascinating ethnographies provide insight into reproduction and reproductive health broadly conceived to encompass population control, HIV/AIDS, assisted reproductive technologies, paternity tests, sex work, and humanitarian assistance. The contributors address the methodological challenges of research on globalization, including ways of combining fine-grained ethnography with analyses of large-scale political, economic, and ideological forces. Their essays reveal complex interactions among global and state population policies and politics; public health, human rights, and feminist movements; diverse medical systems; various religious practices, doctrines, and institutions; and intimate relationships and individual aspirations.
Available: https://www.dukeupress.edu/reproduction-globalization-and-the-state
Experiences of donor conception : parents, offspring, and donors through the years
by Caroline Lorbach
Language: English
London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003.
208 p. : cm.
ISBN: 184310122X ; 9781843101222
Summary: Drawing on the experiences of parents, offspring and donors and including her own and her family's story, this thought-provoking and informative book explores the process of donor conception. She provides practical suggestions as well as in-depth consideration of the emotional and ethical issues involved.
Available: http://www.jkp.com/usa/experiences-of-donor-conception.html
Third party assisted conception across cultures : social, legal, and ethical perspectives
by Eric Blyth; Ruth Landau, editors
Language: English
London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.
288 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1843100851 ; 9781843100850
Summary: This is a comprehensive guide to the place of third party assisted conception within health care provision, drawing on ethical and religious standpoints as well as political and economic factors. Blyth and Landau have brought together contributors to consider the social, legal and ethical aspects of assisted conception in thirteen countries.
Available: http://www.jkp.com/usa/third-party-assisted-conception-across-cultures.html
Conceiving kinship : assisted conception, procreation and family in southern Europe
by Monica M. E. Bonaccorso
Language: English
New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
xxii, 149 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781845451127 ; 1845451120
Summary: Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was considered the 'Wild-West' of assisted conception. This compelling study provides a new perspective on hotly debated issues in kinship studies and the modern medical technologies; it offers fresh insights into longstanding questions of cultural continuities and discontinuities in European kinship.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BonaccorsoConceiving
Kin, gene, community : reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis
by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli; Yoram S Carmeli, editors
Language: English
New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
viii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781845456887 ; 1845456882
Summary: Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of families within local Jewish populations. The contributors—anthropologists, bioethicists, jurists, physicians and biologists—highlight the complexities surrounding these treatments and show how biological relatedness is being construed as a technology of power; how genetics is woven into the production of identities; how reproductive technologies enhance the policing of boundaries. Donor insemination, IVF and surrogacy, as well as abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and human embryonic stem cell research, are explored within local and global contexts to convey an informed perspective on the wider Jewish Israeli environment.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Birenbaum-CarmeliKin
Islam and assisted reproductive technologies : Sunni and Shia perspectives
by Marcia Claire Inhorn; Soraya Tremayne, editors
Language: English
New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
xvi, 338 pages ; 24 cm.
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SBN: 9780857454904 ; 0857454900
Summary: How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled with the complex bioethical, legal, and social issues that are raised in the process of attempting to conceive life in the face of infertility? This path-breaking volume explores the influence of Islamic attitudes on Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) and reveals the variations in both the Islamic jurisprudence and the cultural responses to ARTs.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/InhornIslam
Assisted reproductive technologies in the third phase: global encounters and emerging moral worlds
by Kate Hampshire; Bob Simpson, editors
Language: English
New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2015.
vi, 284 p. : 23 cm.
ISBN: 1782388079 ; 9781782388074
Summary: Following the birth of the first “test-tube baby” in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the “First Phase” of ARTs. In the “Second Phase,” these treatments became increasingly available to cosmopolitan global elites. Today, this picture is changing — albeit slowly and unevenly — as ARTs are becoming more widely available. While, for many, accessing infertility treatments remains a dream, these are beginning to be viewed as a standard part of reproductive healthcare and family planning. This volume highlights this “Third Phase” — the opening up of ARTs to new constituencies in terms of ethnicity, geography, education, and class.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HampshireAssisted
Achieving procreation : childlessness and IVF in Turkey
by Merve Demircioğlu Göknar
Language: English
New York : Berghahn, 2015. ©2015.
xii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781782386346 ; 1782386343
Summary: Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master, and may even become an issue of belonging for both men and women. With ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population. Göknar investigates the experience of infertility through various perspectives, such as the importance of having a child for women, the mediating role of religion, the power dynamics in same-gender relationships, and the impact of manhood ideologies on the decision for — or against — having IVF.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/GoeknarAchieving
Thai in vitro : gender, culture and assisted reproduction
by Andrea Whittaker
Language: English
New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
276 p. : illus. ; cm.
ISBN: 9781782387329 ; 1782387323
Summary: In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. Though using assisted reproductive technologies is becoming more acceptable in Thai society, access to and choices about such technologies are mediated by differences in class position. These stories of women and men in private and public infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities influence the practices and meanings of treatment.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WhittakerThai
Conceptions : infertilities and procreative technologies in India
by Aditya Bharadwaj
Language: English
New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
276 p. ; illus. : cm.
ISBN: 9781785332302 ; 1785332309
Summary: Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions. These ‘conceptions’ are key to understanding the burgeoning spread of assisted reproductive technologies and the social implications of infertility and childlessness in India. This longitudinal study is situated in a number of diverse locales which, when taken together, unravel the complex nature of infertility and assisted conception in contemporary India.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BharadwajConceptions
Infertility in the modern world : present and future prospects
by Gillian R Bentley; C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor, editors
Language: English
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0521643643 ; 9780521643641
Summary: As we enter the twenty-first century, a number of medical, environmental, and social changes have profoundly affected human reproduction. This book discusses some of the more dramatic changes in an accessible manner, illustrating the ways in which human biology and culture can affect fertility. It provides a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the subject. Topics of discussion include medical technological advances that equip us with potential cures for many causes of infertility; diseases, such as AIDS, that have a devastating impact on the reproductive and social lives of humans; increasing industrialization and the development of fabricated materials that pollute our environment in unforeseen ways with possibly devastating effects on human health and fertility; and social revolutions that profoundly alter human relationships, such as nonmarital unions between heterosexual couples, same-sex relationships, and adoption and surrogacy.
Available: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/life-sciences/biological-anthropology-and-primatology/infertility-modern-world-present-and-future-prospects
The elusive embryo : how women and men approach new reproductive technologies
by Gaylene Becker
Language: English
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
x, 320 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9780520925243 ; 0520925246
Summary: In the first book to examine the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, Gay Becker scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll—both financial and emotional—that the quest for a biological child often exacts from would-be parents. Becker interviewed hundreds of people over a period of years; their stories are presented here in their own words. Absorbing, informative, and in many cases moving, these stories address deep-seated notions about gender, self-worth, and the cultural ideal of biological parenthood. Becker moves beyond people's personal experiences to examine contemporary meanings of technology and the role of consumption in modern life. What emerges is a clear view of technology as culture, with technology the template on which issues such as gender, nature, and the body are being rewritten and continuously altered. The Elusive Embryo chronicles the history and development of reproductive technology, and shows how global forces in consumer culture have contributed to the industry's growth. Becker examines how increasing use of reproductive technology has changed ideas about "natural" pregnancy and birth. Discussing topics such as in vitro fertilization, how men and women "naturalize" the use of a donor, and what happens when new reproductive technologies don't work, Becker shows how the experience of infertility has become increasingly politicized as potential parents confront the powerful forces that shape this industry. The Elusive Embryo is accessible, well written, and well documented. It will be an invaluable resource for people using or considering new reproductive technologies as well as for social scientists and health professionals.
Available: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520224315
Misconceptions : the social construction of choice and the new reproductive and genetic technologies
by Gwynne Basen; Margrit Eichler; Abby Lippman, editors
Language: English
Hull, Quebec : Voyageur Pub., 1993-1994.
2 volumes ; 18 cm.
ISBN: 0921842252 ; 9780921842255
Summary: Discusses "correcting" infertility, "curing" disease or "improving" women's health; while explaining how women from diverse activist and academic backgrounds challenge these claims.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Misconceptions-Construction-Reproductive-Genetic-Technologies/dp/0921842376
Sex in the future : the reproductive revolution and how it will change us
by Robin Baker
Language: English
New York : Arcade Pub., 2000.
xvi, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1559705213 ; 9781559705219
Summary: Robin Baker, an expert on evolution and human sexual behavior turns his attention to the reproductive revolution that is happening around us. Baker explains the technologies of assisted reproduction that are currently available and those likely to become available as we proceed in the twenty-first century: from in vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood to cloning, gamete banking, and novel ways of micromanipulating sperm and egg, testes and ovaries.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Future-Reproductive-Revolution-Change/dp/1559705213
The clone age : adventures in the new world of reproductive technology
by Lori B. Andrews
Language: English
New York : Henry Holt, ©1999.
264 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0805060804 ; 9780805060805
Summary: An authority on the legal and ethical ramifications of reproductive technology discusses the history of biotechnology, the future of genetic research, and related moral issues.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Clone-Age-Adventures-Reproductive-Technology/dp/0805060804
Sex cells : the medical market in sperm and eggs
by Rene Almeling
Language: English
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
pages; cm.
ISBN: 9780520270954 ; 0520270959
Summary: Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. This title provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Cells-Medical-Market-Sperm/dp/0520270967
Donor conception and the search for information : from secrecy and anonymity to openness
by Sonia Allan
Language: English
New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
pages, cm.
ISBN: 9781409446392 ; 1409446395
Summary: This book examines the extent to which laws in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia regulate access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) and control the use of surrogacy and payments made to surrogate mothers. It also provides a review of the varied answers offered to the questions about parenthood that arise when either method of assisted conception results in the birth of a child. Finally it identifies models which may assist in the further development of the law in these jurisdictions. Whilst the book provides comprehensive information about the laws of each jurisdiction where necessary, the focus is upon differences in approach and style. The study thus reflects contrasting perceptions of the role the law should play in the highly personal matter of human reproduction. The book will be of value to academics, students and legal practitioners involved with this area. It is also relevant to policy makers, health practitioners and anyone with an interest in the subject.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Donor-Conception-Search-Information-Biomedical/dp/1409446395
Baby steps : how lesbian alternative insemination is changing the world
by Amy Agigian
Language: English
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2004.
xxii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0819566292 ; 9780819566294
Summary: Explores the controversial implications of lesbian insemination.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Steps-Alternative-Insemination-Changing/dp/0819566306
