Reproductive Donation : Practice, Policy and Bioethics

Martin Richards

ISBN 10: 0521189934 / ISBN 13: 9780521189934

Editore: Cambridge University Press Jul 2012, 2012

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Neuware - New ethical challenges have arisen from recent changes to legislation on gamete donation around the world. This book integrates contemporary research with a discussion of the implications of creating families in this way. It presents a breadth of provocative and interdisciplinary perspectives on the policies, practices and cultures of donation. Reproductive donation is the most contentious area of assisted reproduction. Even within Europe there are wide variations in what is permitted in each country. This multidisciplinary book takes a fresh look at the practices of egg, sperm and embryo donation and surrogacy, bringing together ethical analysis and empirical research. New evidence is offered on aspects of assisted reproduction and the families these create, including non-traditional types. One of the key issues addressed is should children be told of their donor origin If they do learn the identity of their donor, what kinds of relationships may be forged between families, the donor and other donor sibling families Should donation involve a gift relationship Is intra-familial donation too close for comfort How should we understand the growing trend for 'reproductive tourism' This lively and informed discussion offers new insights into reproductive donation and the resulting donor families.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Reproductive Donation : Practice, Policy and Bioethics
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Jul 2012
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521189934
• ISBN 13: 9780521189934
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 226 L x 153 A x 17 P (millimetri) 226 millimetri di larghezza per 153 millimetri di altezza per 17 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 523 grammi

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This book combines empirical research with commentary on ethics, policy and legislation, raising provocative questions about reproductive donation and surrogacy.

Informazioni sugli autori

Martin Richards is Emeritus Professor of Family Research in the University of Cambridge Centre for Family Research, which he founded and directed until 2005. His research concerns the psychosocial aspects of new reproductive and genetic technologies and the social and ethical issues that deployment of new technologies may raise. He publishes widely in academic journals. His books include: The Troubled Helix: Social and Psychological Implications of the New Human Genetics, edited with Theresa Marteau (1996); The Limits of Consent: A Socio-Ethical Approach, edited with John McMillan et al. (2009); Regulating Autonomy: Sex, Reproduction and Families, edited with Shelley Day-Slater et al. (2009) and Birthrights or Rites, edited with Fatemeh Ebtehaj et al. (2011).

Guido Pennings is Professor of Ethics and Bioethics at Ghent University where he is also the Director of the Bioethics Institute, Ghent. He mainly publishes on ethical problems associated with medically assisted reproduction and genetics including sex selection, gamete donation, stem cell research, fertility preservation and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. In addition, he is Affiliate Lecturer in the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies at Cambridge University and Guest Professor on 'Ethics in Reproductive Medicine' at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Free University, Brussels.

John Appleby is currently a Wellcome Trust PhD student in bioethics at the Centre for Family Research and a member of Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge.