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
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
Delivering policy : the contested politics of assisted reproductive technologies in Canada
by Francesca Scala
Language: English
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2019].
x, 242 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780774860093 ; 077486009X
Summary: Are assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) a medical issue or a matter of public policy, subject to restrictions? Francesca Scala employs the concept of boundary work to explain the protracted debates that ensued when Canada appointed a royal commission in 1989 to settle the issue. She reveals that both sides of the debate attempted to secure their position as authorities by challenging, defending, or blurring the boundaries between science and politics. This compelling account contributes to our understanding of the interaction between science and politics, the exercise of social control over science and technology, and the politics of expertise in policymaking.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Policy-Contested-Reproductive-Technologies/dp/077486009X
Subjects:
- Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- Canada
- Human reproductive technology -- Government policy -- Canada
Assisted reproduction, discrimination, and the law
by Michelle Weldon-Johns
Language: English
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY Routledge, 2020.
135 p.
ISBN: 9781138610040 ; 1138610046
Summary: The numbers of women undergoing Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) treatments have risen steadily, yet they remain largely outside the scope of equality and employment law protection while undergoing treatment. Assisted Reproduction, Discrimination, and the Law examines this gap in UK law, with reference to EU law as appropriate, and argues that new conceptions of equality are necessary. Drawing from the literature on multidimensional and intersectional discrimination, it is argued that an intersectionality approach offers a more useful analytical framework to extend protection to those engaged in ART treatments. Drawing from Schiek’s intersectional nodes model, the book critically examines two alternative interpretations of existing protected characteristics, namely infertility as a disability, with reference to the social model of disability and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, and redefining the boundaries of pregnancy and/or sex discrimination, with reference to attempts to extend associative discrimination to pregnancy. Comparisons are drawn with the US, where infertility has been recognised as a disability under the American’s with Disabilities Act 1990 and as a pregnancy-related condition under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act 1978. A specific right to paid time off work to undergo treatment is also proposed, drawing comparisons with the US Family and Medical Leave Act 1993 and the existing UK work-family rights framework. It is argued that the reinterpretations of equality law and the rights proposed here are not only conceptually possible, but could practically be achieved with minor, but significant, amendments to existing legislation.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Assisted-Reproduction-Discrimination-Michelle-Weldon-Johns/dp/1138610046
Subjects:
- Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
- Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation
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
A Portrait of Assisted Reproduction in Mexico : scientific, political, and cultural interactions
by Sandra P. González-Santos
Language: English
Cham Springer International Publishing Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2020 2020 ©2020.
1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9783030230401 ; 3030230406
Summary: This book paints a comprehensive portrait of Mexico’s system of assisted reproduction first from a historical perspective, then from a more contemporary viewpoint. Based on a detailed analysis of books and articles published between the 1950s and 1980s, the first section tells the story of how the epistemic, normative, and material infrastructure of the assisted reproduction system was built. It traces the professionalization process of assisted reproduction as a medical field and the establishment of its professional association. Drawing on ethnographic material, the second part looks at how this system developed and flourished from the 1980s up to 2010, its commercialization process, how the expansion of reproductive services took place, and the messages regarding reproductive technologies that circulated within a wide discursive landscape. Given its scope and methods, this book will appeal to scholars interested in science and technology studies, reproduction studies, history of medicine, medical anthropology, and sociology.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Assisted-Reproduction-Mexico-Interactions/dp/3030230406
Subjects:
- Human reproductive technology -- Mexico
- Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- Mexico
- Human reproductive technology
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.
