Relatedness in assisted reproduction - families, origins and identities
edited by Tabitha Freeman; Susanna Graham; Fatemeh Ebtehaj; Martin Richards
Language: English
Cambridge University Press, 2016.
xi, 319 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9781316618028 ; 1316618021
Summary: Assisted reproduction challenges and reinforces traditional understandings of family, kinship and identity. Sperm, egg and embryo donation and surrogacy raise questions about relatedness for parents, children, and others involved in creating and raising a child. How socially, morally or psychologically significant is a genetic link between a donor-conceived child and their donor? What should children born through assisted reproduction be told about their origins? Does it matter if a parent is genetically unrelated to their child? How do experiences differ for men and women using collaborative reproduction in heterosexual or same-sex couples, single-parent families or co-parenting arrangements? What impact does the wider cultural, socio-legal and regulatory context have? In this multidisciplinary book, an international team of academics and clinicians bring together new empirical research and social science, legal and bioethical perspectives to explore the key issue of relatedness in assisted reproduction.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Relatedness-Assisted-Reproduction-Families-Identities/dp/1107038286
Subjects:
- Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Relatedness (Psychology)
- Human reproductive technology
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
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
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
