Relatedness in assisted reproduction - families, origins and identities

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

The Oxford handbook of reproductive ethics

The Oxford handbook of reproductive ethics 
edited by Leslie P. Francis 
Language: English 
New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. 
1 vol. (XIII-664 p.) ; 25 cm. 
ISBN: 019093333X ; 9780190933333 
Summary: Intimate and medicalized, natural and technological, reproduction poses some of the most challenging ethical dilemmas of our time. Reproduction presses the boundaries of humanity and ethical respect, the permissible limits of technology, conscientious objection by health care professionals, and social justice. This volume brings together scholars from multiple perspectives to address both traditional and novel questions about the rights and responsibilities of human reproducers, their caregivers, and the societies in which they live. Among issues treated in the volume are what it is to be a parent, the responsibilities of parents, and the role of society in facilitating or discouraging parenting. May gamete donors be anonymous? Is surrogacy in which a woman gestates a child for others ethically permissible when efforts are made to prevent coercion or exploitation? Should it be mandatory to screen newborns for potentially serious conditions, or permissible to sequence their genomes? Are both parties to a reproductive act equally responsible to support the child, even if one deceived the other? Are there ethical asymmetries between male and female parents, and is the lack of available contraceptives for men unjust? Should the costs of infertility treatment be socially shared, as they are for other forms of health care? Do parents have a duty to try to conceive children under the best circumstances they can-or to avoid conception if the child will suffer? What is the status of the fetus and what ethical limits constrain the use of fetal tissue? Reproduction is a rapidly changing medical field, with novel developments such as mitochondrial transfer or uterine transplantation occurring regularly. And there are emerging natural challenges, too, with the Zika virus just the latest. The volume gives readers tools not only to address the problems we now know but ones that may emerge in the future as well. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Reproductive-Ethics-Handbooks/dp/019093333X/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects

Reproduction, globalization, and the state : new theoretical and ethnographic perspectives

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