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 p. : tablas ; 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: https://www.amazon.com/Test-Tube-Families-Fertility-Regulation/dp/0814716822/
Subjects:
- Fertilization in vitro -- Law and legislation -- United States
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
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
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
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
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
