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Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Politics of the womb : the perils of IVF surrogacy and modified babies
by Pinki Virani
Language: English
Gurgaon : Penguin, 2017.
372 p.
ISBN: 9780143429104 ; 0143429108
Summary: Among life s choices is to have children or remain childfree. Yet those who want a child and find themselves unable, live through the trauma of infertility cruelly attributed as their fault to undergo the tribulations of assisted reproductive technology. But how safe is aggressive Ivf, invasive Icsi, exploitative ovarian hyper-stimulation, and commercial surrogacy? Politics of the Womb proves that there can be broken babies and breaking mothers; it rips away the romanticism around uterus transplants, warns of genetic theft and designer babies, and points to the human element being sacrificed, as artificial reproduction uses, reuses and recycles the woman. Pinki Virani combines investigation with analysis to question those who lead the worldwide onslaught on the woman s womb in the name of babies, and squarely confronts what has become the business of baby-making by a chain of suppliers that manufactures on demand.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Womb-Perils-Surrogacy-Modified/dp/0670088722
Subjects:
- Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
Babies of technology : assisted reproduction and the rights of the child
by Mary Ann Mason; Tom Ekman
Language: English
New Haven, Connecticut Yale University Press [2017].
xii, 240 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780300215878 ; 0300215878
Summary: Examines each aspect of assisted reproductive technology, from the oldest and still most widely used intervention--artificial insemination by sperm donor--all the way to the future of genetically modified human beings. Mason and Ekmann investigate frozen eggs, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and the demographics of who is participating in the assisted reproduction industry in the United States and internationally. They also identify the issues affecting children who are being born as a result of these current and advancing technologies, including health problems, identity confusion, legal status, and potentially superhuman traits and abilities. The authors argue that we need to protect our babies of technology by advocating for a basic International Code of Rights for Children of Assisted Reproductive Technology with principles that could be applied to established and evolving technologies. They also propose creating a federal administrative agency whose primary responsibilities would be monitoring assisted reproduction, instituting guidelines, and maintaining records of all procedures performed across the United States.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Babies-Technology-Assisted-Reproduction-Rights/dp/0300215878/
Subjects:
- Children of assisted reproductive technology
- Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation
- Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Children's rights
Reconfiguring reproduction : feminist health perspectives on assisted reproductive technologies
by Sarojini N.; Vrinda Marwah
Language: English
New Delhi : Zubaan, 2014.
1 volume ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9789383074525 ; 9383074523
Summary: Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of pregnancy, birth, infertility, and women’s bodies. Viewed by some as a technological quick-fix for infertility, ARTs create both challenges and opportunities, and responses to them have sought to balance questions of ethics, rights, and politics. With essays by eminent academics and activists, Reconfiguring Reproduction examines the ART industry by bringing a feminist health lens to bear on the experiences of women in countries such as Korea, Canada, the United States, Israel, Australia, India, and others.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reconfiguring-Reproduction-Perspectives-Reproductive-Technologies/dp/9383074523
Subjects:
- Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Feminist theory
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
Designing babies : how technology is changing the ways we create children
by Robert Klitzman
Language: English
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020].
viii, 345 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780190054472 ; 0190054476
Summary: Since the first "test-tube baby" was born over 40 years ago, In Vitro Fertilization and other Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have advanced in extraordinary ways, producing millions of babies. An estimated 20% of American couples use infertility services to help them conceive, and that number is growing. Such technologies permit thousands of people, including gay and lesbian couples and single parents, to have offspring. Couples can now transmit or avoid passing on certain genes to their children, including those for chronic disease and, probably sometime soon, height and eye color as well. Prospective parents routinely choose even the sex of their future child and whether or not to have twins. The possibilities of this rapidly developing technology are astounding-especially in the United States, where the procedures are practically unregulated and a large commercial market for buying and selling human eggs is swiftly growing. New gene-editing technology, known as CRISPR, allows for even more direct manipulation of embryos' genes. As these possibilities are increasingly realized, potential parents, doctors, and policy-makers face complex and critical questions about the use-or possible misuse-of ARTs. Designing Babies confronts these questions, examining the ethical, social, and policy concerns surrounding reproductive technology. Based on in-depth interviews with providers and patients, Robert Klitzman explores how individuals and couples are facing quandaries of whether, when, and how to use ARTs. He articulates the full range of these crucial issues, from the economic pressures patients face to the moral and social challenges they encounter as they make decisions which will profoundly shape the lives of their offspring. In doing so, he reveals the broader social and biological implications of controlling genetics, ultimately arguing for closer regulation of procedures which affect the lives of generations to come and the future of our species as a whole.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Babies-Technology-Changing-Children/dp/0190054476/
Subjects:
- Human Reproductive Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Infertility
- Genetic engineering
- Reproductive techniques, Assisted -- Ethics
- Reproductive techniques, Assisted -- Economics
Access to assisted reproductive technologies : the case of France and Belgium
edited by Jennifer Merchant
Language: English
New York : Berghahn, 2020.
242 p. : cm.
ISBN: 9781789204315 ; 1789204313
Summary: Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly with similar culinary tastes, music and pop culture, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. Discrimination written into French law acutely contrasts with non-discriminatory access to ART in Belgium. The contributors of this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England, and the United States, representing different disciplines: law, political science, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Access-Assisted-Reproductive-Technologies-Reproduction/dp/1789204313/
Subjects:
- Human reproductive technology -- France.
- Human reproductive technology -- Belgium.
- Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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
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
