Reproducing Jews : a cultural account of assisted conception in Israel

Reproducing Jews : a cultural account of assisted conception in Israel 
by Susan Martha Kahn 
Language: English 
Durham : Duke Univ. Press, 2006. 
227 p. 
ISBN: 0822326019 ; 9780822326014 
Summary: There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Israel has the world's highest per capita rate of in-vitro fertilization procedures. Fertility treatments are fully subsidized by Israeli national health insurance and are available to all Israelis, regardless of religion or marital status. These phenomena are not the result of unusually high rates of infertility in Israel but reflect the centrality of reproduction in Judaism and Jewish culture. In this ethnographic study of the new reproductive technologies in Israel, Susan Martha Kahn explores the cultural meanings and contemporary rabbinic responses to artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, egg donation, and surrogacy. Kahn draws on fieldwork with unmarried Israeli women who are using state-subsidized artificial insemination to get pregnant and on participant-observation in Israeli fertility clinics. Through close readings of traditional Jewish texts and careful analysis of Israeli public discourse, she explains how the Israeli embrace of new reproductive technologies has made Jewish beliefs about kinship startlingly literal. Kahn also reveals how a wide range of contemporary Israelis are using new reproductive technologies to realize their reproductive futures, from ultraorthodox infertile married couples to secular unmarried women. As the first scholarly account of assisted conception in Israel, this multi-sited ethnography will contribute to current anthropological debates on kinship studies. It will also interest those involved with Jewish studies. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproducing-Jews-Cultural-Conception-Commodity/dp/0822325985/
Subjects: 

• Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- Israel
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- Israel
• Human reproductive technology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism

Mommies, daddies, donors, surrogates : answering tough questions and building strong families

Mommies, daddies, donors, surrogates : answering tough questions and building strong families 
by Diane Ehrensaft 
Language: English 
New York : Guilford Press, ©2005. 
xii, 303 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 1593851790 ; 9781593851798 
Summary: If you need help having a baby, reproductive technology can supply the answer. But it also raises a host of questions that won’t arise until after the child is born: What will you say to “Where did I come from?” when the answer includes a donor or surrogate? Will knowing the truth about how you conceived to make your child love you less? Will having a baby with someone else strain your relationship with your spouse or partner? What will grandparents, family members, friends, and coworkers think? Dr. Diane Ehrensaft--a developmental and clinical psychologist who’s worked with families formed using assisted reproductive technology for more than 20 years--helps you anticipate the big questions and find solutions that are right for you and your loved ones. Dr. Ehrensaft offers information, support, and straightforward advice for coping with private worries, confronting public prejudices, and raising happy, healthy children. Single or married, straight or gay, anyone looking forward to the joys and challenges of building a family with the help of a donor or surrogate will discover a wealth of thought-provoking ideas and fresh insights in this sensitive, practical, and positive book. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Mommies-Daddies-Donors-Surrogates-Answering/dp/1593851332/
Subjects:

• Parenting -- Psychological aspects
• Surrogate motherhood -- Psychological aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Psychological aspects

Everything conceivable : how assisted reproduction is changing our world

Everything conceivable : how assisted reproduction is changing our world 
by Liza Mundy 
Language: English 
New York : Anchor Books, 2008. 
1 vol. (xx-412 p.) ; 21 cm. 
ISBN: 9781400095377 ; 1400095379 
Summary: Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species. Skyrocketing infertility rates and dizzying technological advances are revolutionizing American families and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself. Using in-depth reporting and riveting anecdotal material from doctors, families, surrogates, sperm and egg donors, infertile men and women, single and gay and lesbian parents, and children conceived through technology, Mundy explores the impact of assisted reproduction on individuals as well as the ethical issues raised and the potentially vast social consequences. The unforgettable personal stories in Everything Conceivable run the gamut from joyous to tragic; all of them raise questions we dare not ignore. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Conceivable-Assisted-Reproduction-Changing/dp/1400095379/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- United States
• Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects -- United States

Test tube families : why the fertility market needs legal regulation

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

God's laboratory : assisted reproduction in the Andes

God's laboratory : assisted reproduction in the Andes 
by Elizabeth F. S. Roberts 
Language: English 
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012. 
xxv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780520270824 ; 0520270827 
Summary: Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts explores how reproduction by way of biotechnological assistance is not only accepted but embraced despite widespread poverty and condemnation from the Catholic Church. Roberts’ intimate portrait of IVF practitioners and their patients reveals how technological intervention is folded into an Andean understanding of reproduction as always assisted, whether through kin or God. She argues that the Ecuadorian incarnation of reproductive technology is less about a national desire for modernity than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic practice, and kinship configurations. God’s Laboratory offers a grounded introduction to critical debates in medical anthropology and science studies, as well as a nuanced ethnography of the interplay between science, religion, race, and history in the formation of Andean families. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Laboratory-Assisted-Reproduction-Andes/dp/0520270827/
Subjects:

• Medical anthropology
• Human reproductive technology -- Andes Region
• Human reproductive technology -- Ecuador
• Fertilization in Vitro -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church

Babies of technology : assisted reproduction and the rights of the child

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

The assisted reproduction of race

The assisted reproduction of race 
by Camisha A. Russell 
Language: English 
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2018. 
x, 189 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780253035820 ; 0253035821 
Summary: The use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)―in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy―challenges contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies also bring new insight into ideas and questions surrounding race. In her view, if we think of ART as medical technology, we might be surprised by the importance that people using them put on race, especially given the scientific evidence that race lacks a genetic basis. However, if we think of ART as an intervention to make babies and parents, as technologies of kinship, the importance placed on race may not be so surprising after all. Thinking about race in terms of technology brings together the common academic insight that race is a social construction with the equally important insight that race is a political tool which has been and continues to be used in different contexts for a variety of ends, including social cohesion, economic exploitation, and political mastery. As Russell explores ideas about race through their role in ART, she brings together social and political views to shift debates from what race is to what race does, how it is used, and what effects it has had in the world. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Assisted-Reproduction-Race-Camisha-Russell/dp/0253035902
Subjects:

• Medical ethics
• Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Reproductive techniques, Assisted -- Ethics
• Surrogate mothers

The pursuit of parenthood : reproductive technology from IVF to uterus transplants

The pursuit of parenthood : reproductive technology from IVF to uterus transplants 
by Margaret S. Marsh; Wanda Ronner 
Language: English 
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]. 
288 p. 
ISBN: 9781421429847 ; 1421429845 
Summary: Since the 1978 birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in England, more than eight million children have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies. From the start, they have stirred controversy and raised profound questions: Should there be limits to the lengths to which people can go to make their idea of family a reality? Who should pay for treatment? How can we ensure the ethical use of these technologies? And what can be done to address the racial and economic disparities in access to care that enable some to have children while others go without? In The Pursuit of Parenthood, historian Margaret Marsh and gynecologist Wanda Ronner seek to answer these challenging questions. Bringing their unique expertise in gender history and women's health to the subject, Marsh and Ronner examine the unprecedented means―liberating for some and deeply unsettling for others―by which families can now be created. Beginning with the early efforts to create embryos outside a woman's body and ending with such new developments as mitochondrial replacement techniques and uterus transplants, the authors assess the impact of contemporary reproductive technology in the United States. In this volume, we meet the scientists and physicians who have developed these technologies and the women and men who have used them. Along the way, the book dispels a number of fertility myths, offers policy recommendations that are intended to bring clarity and judgment to this complicated medical history, and reveals why the United States is still known as the "Wild West" of reproductive medicine. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Parenthood-Reproductive-Technology-Transplants/dp/1421429845/
Subjects:

• Infertility -- History
• Fertilization in Vitro -- History
• Reproductive techniques, Assisted -- History

Romancing the sperm : shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families

Romancing the sperm : shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families 
by Diane Tober 
Language: English 
New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]. 
xv, 220 pages ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 0813590787 ; 0813590795 
Summary: The 1990s marked a new era in family formation. Increased access to donor sperm enabled single women and lesbian couples to create their families on their own terms, outside the bounds of heterosexual married relationships. However, emerging "alternative" families were not without social and political controversy. Women who chose to have children without male partners faced many challenges in their quest to have children. Despite current wider social acceptance of single people and same sex couples becoming parents, many of these challenges continue. In Romancing the Sperm, Diane Tober explores the intersections between sperm donation and the broader social and political environment in which "modern families" are created and regulated. Through tangible and intimate stories, this book provides a captivating read for anyone interested in family and kinship, genetics and eugenics, and how ever-expanding assisted reproductive technologies continue to redefine what it means to be human. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Romancing-Sperm-Shifting-Biopolitics-Families/dp/0813590795
Subjects:

• Artificial insemination -- Social aspects
• Families
• Single mothers
• Lesbian mothers
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects

Random families : genetic strangers, sperm donor siblings, and the creation of new kin

Random families : genetic strangers, sperm donor siblings, and the creation of new kin 
by Rosanna Hertz; Margaret K. Nelson 
Language: English 
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]. 
296 p. : il. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780190888275 ; 019088827X 
Summary: The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. Sometimes this network of families forms meaningful connections that blossom into longstanding groups and close friendships. This book is about unprecedented families that have grown up at the intersection of new reproductive technologies, social media and the human desire for belonging. Random Families asks: Do shared genes make you a family? What do couples do when they discover that their children share half their DNA with a dozen or more other offspring from the same sperm donor? What do kids find in common with their donor siblings? What becomes of these chance networks once parents and donor siblings find one another? Based on over 350 interviews with children (ages 10-28) and their parents from all over the U.S., Random Families chronicles the chain of choices that couples and single mothers make from what donor to use to how to participate (or not) in donor sibling networks. Children reveal their understanding of a donor, the donor's spot on the family tree and the meaning of their donor siblings. Through rich first-person accounts of network membership, the book illustrates how these extraordinary relationships -- woven from bits of online information and shared genetic ties -- are transformed into new possibilities for kinship. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Random-Families-Strangers-Siblings-Creation/dp/019088827X/
Subjects:

• Kinship
• Families
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- United States
• Children of sperm donors -- United States

Reproductive geographies : bodies, places and politics

Reproductive geographies : bodies, places and politics 
edited by Marcia R. England; Maria Fannin; Helen Hazen
Language: English 
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. ©2019. 
x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780815386193 ; 0815386192 
Summary: The sites, spaces, and subjects of reproduction are distinctly geographical. Reproductive geographies span different scales--body, home, local, national, global--and movements across space. This book expands our understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial aspects of fertility, pregnancy, and birth. The chapters directly address global perspectives, the future of reproductive politics and state-focused approaches to the politicization of fertility, pregnancy, and birth. The book provides up-to-date explorations on the changing landscapes of reproduction, including the expansion of reproductive technologies, such as surrogacy and intrauterine insemination. Contributions in this book focus on phenomenologically inspired accounts of women's lived experience of pregnancy and birth, the biopolitics of birth and citizenship, the material histories of reproductive tissues as "scientific objects" and engagements with public health and development policy. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproductive-Geographies-Politics-Routledge-International/dp/0815386192/ 
Subjects:

• Human reproduction -- Social aspects
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects
• Human reproductive technology

Psychoanalytic aspects of assisted reproductive technology

Psychoanalytic aspects of assisted reproductive technology 
by Mali Mann 
Language: English 
[S.l.] : Routledge, 2019. 
1 volume ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 0367325985 ; 9780367325985 
Summary: This book stems from the author's clinical experience working with infertile women in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It highlights the crucial importance of the integrative work of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts with reproductive medicine specialists in assisted reproductive technology (ART). 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Psychoanalytic-Aspects-Assisted-Reproductive-Technology/dp/1780491964/
Subjects:

• Human Reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology - Psychological aspects
• Psychoanalysis

Assisted Reproduction : conceptions, controversies,and community sentiment

Assisted Reproduction : conceptions, controversies, and community sentiment 
by Alexandra E. Sigillo; Monica K. Miller
Language: English 
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. 
1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 1498557910 ; 9781498557917 
Summary: Assisted reproductive technology (ART) allows people who are infertile the opportunity to conceive children and form much-desired families. Over the past few decades, the number of ART procedures conducted in the United States has steadily increased, in part affected by the growing number of women trying to conceive later in their reproductive lives. This demographic shift in baby-making has widened to include a variety of other people who experience social infertility, from single persons to same-sex couples. Media exposure and political attention to the use of ART have aroused public concern and controversy. In Assisted Reproduction, Alexandra E. Sigillo and Monica K. Miller explore how media, personal differences, societal influences, and psychological processes shape community sentiment toward ART and ART-related laws and policies. This book is recommended for students and scholars of psychology, sociology, gender and women’s studies, communication studies, public health, and legal studies. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Assisted-Reproduction-Conceptions-Controversies-Perspectives/dp/1498557910
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Political aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Psychological aspects
• Human reproductive technology in mass media

Transnationalising reproduction : third party conception in a globalised world

Transnationalising reproduction : third party conception in a globalised world 
by Róisín Ryan-Flood; Jenny Gunnarsson Payne; 
Language: English 
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. 
ix, 201 p. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN: 9781138840713 ; 1138840718 
Summary: Third-party conception is a growing phenomenon and provokes a burgeoning range of ethical, legal and social questions. What are the rights of donors, recipients and donor-conceived children? How are these reproductive technologies regulated? How is kinship understood within these new family forms? Written by specialists from three different continents, Transnationalising Reproduction examines a broad range of issues concerning kinship and identity, citizenship and regulation, and global markets of reproductive labour; including gamete donation and gestational surrogacy. Indeed, this book seeks to highlight how reproductive technologies not only makes possible new forms of kinship and family formations but also how these give rise to new, ethical, political and legal dilemmas about parenthood as well as new modes of discrimination and a re-distribution of medical risks. It also thoroughly investigates the ways in which commodification of reproductive tissue and labour affects the practices, representations and gendered self-understandings of gamete donors, fertility patients and intended parents in different parts of the world. With a broad geographical scope, Transnationalising Reproduction offers new empirical and theoretical perspectives on third-party conception and demonstrates the need for more transnational approaches to third-party reproduction. This volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Gender Studies, Health Care Sciences, Reproductive Technology, and Medical Sociology. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Transnationalising-Reproduction-Conception-Globalised-Routledge/dp/1138840718/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Surrogate motherhood
• Kinship

Conceiving family : a practical theology of surrogacy and self

Conceiving family : a practical theology of surrogacy and self by Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio 
Language: English 
Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2019]. 
 x, 219 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9781481310567 ; 1481310569 
Summary: Biology continues to be the most widely recognized determinant of the family in the United States and heterosexual intercourse the most common form of family creation. But what happens when children cannot be created in this way? Is it still possible to create a family? Surrogacy provides an alternative means of conception, not only to heterosexual couples who encounter infertility or reproductive loss, but also to single, same-sex, or transgender individuals who want to have children. However, surrogacy itself raises a number of concerns, arguably introducing as many difficulties as it solves. In Conceiving Family, Danielle Tumminio Hansen tackles the unnamed and unexamined problems surrounding surrogacy within a theological framework. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Conceiving-Family-Practical-Theology-Surrogacy/dp/1481310569/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Religious aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Surrogate motherhood -- Moral and ethical aspects

The reproductive body at work : the South African bioeconomy of egg donation

The reproductive body at work : the South African bioeconomy of egg donation 
by Verena Namberger 
Language: English 
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ©2019. 
xviii, 210 pages 25 cm. 
ISBN: 9780367026868 ; 0367026864 
Summary: The transnational industry surrounding assisted reproductive technology and regenerative medicine is based on the unacknowledged labour of gamete providers, surrogates and research subjects, and benefits from low labour costs in ‘enabling’ sectors such as logistics and transport. This finding calls for a comprehensive analysis of how the contemporary intersection of neoliberal capitalism and the life sciences - in short, the bioeconomy - capitalises on the body and its (re)productive capacities. The Reproductive Body at Work uptakes this challenge as it explores the relations between value production, labour and the body in one particular realm of the global bioeconomy: the South African bioeconomy of ‘egg donation’. It highlights different forms and dimensions of unacknowledged or precarious human labour that are constitutive for the procurement, brokering and circulation of oocytes as valuable resources. The analysis illustrates that the respective organisation of value and labour renegotiate what ‘the’ (re)productive body can do, which status and roles it is ascribed, which cultural and economic values it signifies and how it is experienced and enacted within a matrix of intersectional power relations. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproductive-Body-Work-Bioeconomy-Intersectionality/dp/0367026864/ 
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- South Africa
• Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects -- South Africa
• Infertility -- Social aspects -- South Africa

The oocyte economy : the changing meaning of human eggs

The oocyte economy : the changing meaning of human eggs 
by Cathy Waldby 
Language: English 
Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. 
viii, 239 pages ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 9781478004110 ; 1478004118 
Summary: In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life. This trend has created new ways of using, exchanging, and understanding oocytes-the reproductive cells specific to women. In 'The Oocyte Economy' Catherine Waldby draws on 130 interviews--with scientists, clinicians, and women who have either donated or frozen their oocytes or received those of another woman--to trace how the history of human oocytes' perceived value intersects with the biological and social life of women. Demonstrating how oocytes have come to be understood as discrete and scarce biomedical objects open to valuation, management, and exchange, Waldy examines the global market for oocytes and the power dynamics between recipients and the often younger and poorer donors. With this exploration of the oocyte economy and its contemporary biopolitical significance, Waldby rethinks the relationship between fertility, gendered experience, and biomedical innovation. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Oocyte-Economy-Changing-Meaning-Human/dp/1478004118/
Subjects:

• Ovum
• Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
• Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects
• Infertility -- Treatment -- Economic aspects

Fertility, health and reproductive politics : re-imagining rights in India

Fertility, health and reproductive politics : re-imagining rights in India
by Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Language: English
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1138610968 ; 9781138610965
Summary: Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health actors in the state, this book contributes to developing analytic perspectives on reproductive practice, agency and the body-self as particular and novel sites of vital power and politic. Rajasthan has been among the poorest states in the country with high levels of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The author closely examines how social and economic inequalities are produced and sustained in discursive and on the ground contexts of family-making, how authoritative knowledge and power in the domain of childbirth is exercised across a landscape of development institutions, how maternal health becomes a category of citizenship, how health-seeking is socially and emotionally determined and political in nature, how the health sector operates as a biopolitical system, and how diverse moral claims over the fertile, infertile and reproductive body-self are asserted, contested and often realized.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Fertility-Health-Reproductive-Politics-Re-imagining/dp/1138610968
Subjects:

• Human reproduction -- Political aspects -- India
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects

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

The reproductive industry : intimate experiences and global processes

The reproductive industry : intimate experiences and global processes 
edited by Sarah Ferber; Vera C. Mackie; Nicola J. Marks 
Language: English 
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]. 
187 p. 
ISBN: 9781498570657 ; 1498570658 
Summary: Starting in 1978, when the first babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) were born in the UK and India, assisted reproduction has become a global industry. Contributors to this edited collection reflect on the global dimensions of IVF and assisted reproductive technologies, examining how people have used these technologies to create diverse family forms, including gay, lesbian, and transgender parenthood, as well as complex configurations of genetic, gestational, and social parenthood. The authors examine how IVF and other reproductive technologies have and have not circulated around the globe; how reproductive technologies can be situated historically, nationally, locally, and culturally; and the ways in which culture, practices, regulations, norms, families, and kinship ties may be reinforced or challenged through the use of assisted reproduction. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproductive-Industry-Experiences-Perspectives-Psychology/dp/1498570658 
Subjects:

• Fertility, Human
• Human reproductive technology