Ectogenesis

Ectogenesis
Title Ectogenesis PDF eBook
Author Scott Gelfand
Publisher Rodopi
Pages 225
Release 2006
Genre Medical
ISBN 9042020814

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This book raises many moral, legal, social, and political, questions related to possible development, in the near future, of an artificial womb for human use. Is ectogenesis ever morally permissible? If so, under what circumstances? Will ectogenesis enhance or diminish women's reproductive rights and/or their economic opportunities? These are some of the difficult and crucial questions this anthology addresses and attempts to answer.

The Ethics of Artificial Uteruses

The Ethics of Artificial Uteruses
Title The Ethics of Artificial Uteruses PDF eBook
Author Stephen Coleman
Publisher Routledge
Pages 276
Release 2017-11-28
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1351146785

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Ectogenesis, the gestation of the foetus outside of the human body, will not for much longer be in the realm of science fiction; a number of projects attempting to develop ectogenetic technology are currently under way. This book examines the ethical implications of the development of ectogenesis. Examining the implications for abortion ethics in particular, this book also deals with the ethical objections to developing such a technology and the uses to which it may be put, such as creating embryos to supply donor organs for transplantation. The development of the artificial uterus may well be similar to cloning: a sudden technological advance with dramatic ethical implications, thrust suddenly into the public eye.

Decriminalising Abortion in the UK

Decriminalising Abortion in the UK
Title Decriminalising Abortion in the UK PDF eBook
Author Sheldon, Sally
Publisher Policy Press
Pages 176
Release 2020-03-23
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1447354028

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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The public and parliamentary debate about UK abortion law reform is often diverted away from key moral and political questions by disputes regarding basic questions of fact. And all too often, claims of scientific ‘fact’ are ideologically driven. But what effect would decriminalisation be likely to have on women’s health? What would be the impact on the incidence of abortions? Would decriminalisation equate to deregulation, sweeping away necessary restrictions on dangerous or malicious conduct? With each chapter written by leading experts in the fields of medicine, law, reproductive health and social science, this book offers a concise and authoritative account of the evidence regarding the likely impact of decriminalisation of abortion in the UK.

Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Title Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies PDF eBook
Author Amel Alghrani
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 305
Release 2018-11-22
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 1107160561

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Examines emerging assisted reproductive technologies that will revolutionise the future of human reproduction and their regulation.

Birthing Techno-Sapiens

Birthing Techno-Sapiens
Title Birthing Techno-Sapiens PDF eBook
Author Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher Routledge
Pages 222
Release 2021-03-31
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 1000364631

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This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens—a new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies. While some of its chapters are imaginary, they are all empirically grounded in ethnography and richly theorized from diverse disciplines. The authors go far beyond a techno-optimism vs. techno-pessimism stance, stretching our thinking about birthing techno-sapiens to consider not only how our cyborgian reproductive lives are constrained and/or enabled by technology but are also about emotions and spirit. The world of reproductive health care and particularly that of genetic engineering is developing exponentially, and current challenges are vastly different from those of a decade ago. The book is provocative, intended to generate debate, ideas, and future research and to influence ethical policy and practice in human techno-reproduction. It will be of interest across the social sciences and humanities, for reproductive scholars, bioethicists, techno-scientists, and those involved in the development and delivery of maternity services.

The Human Embryo In Vitro

The Human Embryo In Vitro
Title The Human Embryo In Vitro PDF eBook
Author Catriona A. W. McMillan
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 249
Release 2021-04-01
Genre Law
ISBN 1108945163

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The Human Embryo in vitro explores the ways in which UK law engages with embryonic processes under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended), the intellectual basis of which has not been reconsidered for almost thirty years. McMillan argues that in regulating 'the embryo' – that is, a processual liminal entity in itself - the law is regulating for uncertainty. This book offers a fuller understanding of how complex biological processes of development and growth can be better aligned with a legal framework that purports to pay respect to the embryo while also allowing its destruction. To do so it employs an anthropological concept, liminality, which is itself concerned with revealing the dynamics of process. The implications of this for contemporary regulation of artificial reproduction are fully explored, and recommendations are offered for international regimes on how they can better align biological reality with social policy and law.

Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender

Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender
Title Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender PDF eBook
Author Frida Simonstein
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 222
Release 2009-07-06
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 9048124751

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'Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender' brings together three tightly related topics, which have so far been dealt separately in bioethics: assisted reproduction, enhancing and gender. Part one in this book targets present policies and legislature of assisted reproduction. Part two focuses on current views of the ethics of PGD and enhancing. Part three tackles the future of gender. Part four deals with artificial wombs and ectogenesis. The aim of this book is to provide a joint perspective in order to get the big picture. Contributors include Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala, Søren Holm, David Heyd, Daniel Callahan, Harriet Bradley, Ekaterina Balabanova and others. Some chapters in this book will significantly contribute to the current discussion of the topics at stake; other chapters will start a discussion on issues that have not yet been discussed. 'Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender' will certainly appeal to readers who are interested in any of the intersecting topics of assisted reproduction, genetic enhancing and gender; bioethicists, sociologists, genetic counsellors, gynaecologists, legislators, and students of the relevant disciplines.