| Description |
xvi, 354 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- I. Biological, Technological, and Psychological Background -- Reproduction and Reproduction-Aiding Technologies, Lawrence J. Kaplan and Carolyn M. Kaplan -- Emotional Reactions to Infertility, Miriam D. Mazor -- II. Conflicting Perspectives: Issues, Positions, and Arguments -- Surrogate Motherhood: Not So Novel after All John A. Robertson -- Surrogate Motherhood Arrangements from the Perspective of the Child, Herbert T. Krimmel -- Fertilization of Human Eggs In Vitro: A Defense R. G. Edwards -- Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and the Dignity of Procreation, Vatican, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- The Meaning of Life--In the Laboratory, Leon Kass -- Progeny, Progress, and Primrose Paths, Samuel Gorovitz -- III. Why Have Children?: Meaning and Significance -- On the Relationship of Parents and Children, Aristotle -- The Mother, Simone de Beauvoir -- Genetic Puzzles and Stork Stories: On the Meaning and Significance of Having Children, Kenneth D. Alpern -- IV. Making and Selling People: Production and Commerce -- Market-Inalienability, Margaret Radin -- Begotten or Made?, Oliver O'Donovan -- V. Reproductive Technology and Women: Opportunity or Oppression? -- Surrogate Motherhood, The Challenge for Feminists, Lori B. Andrews -- The Mother Machine, Gena Corea -- The Ethics of Sex Preselection, Mary Anne Warren -- VI. Constitutional Rights, Law, and Public Policy -- Non-Coital Reproduction and Procreative Liberty, John A. Robertson -- Equal Protection for Whom?, George P. Smith III and Roberto Iraolo -- Legal Problems of Surrogate Motherhood, Noel P. Keane -- The Overdue Death of a Feminist Chameleon: Taking a Stand on Surrogacy Arrangements, Rosemarie Tong -- VII. Professional Responsibilities -- Ethical Considerations on In Vitro Fertilization, Ethics Committee of the American Fertility Society -- Social Responsibility Demands Treating All Patients in Need, Leonard J. Weber -- Responsible Stewardship Requires Not Cooperating with Surrogacy, Ann Neale -- VIII. Case Studies -- The Case of Baby M: Parenting through Contract When Everyone Wants the Child -- Parenting through Contract When No One Wants the Child -- Property or Persons? The Status of Embryos in In Vitro Fertilization -- Glossary -- Suggestions for Further Reading |
| Summary |
This timely anthology helps students examine the normative and conceptual issues raised by recent innovations in human reproduction, including in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, and surrogate motherhood. Broad-based and interdisciplinary, it gathers together essays of remarkable depth and philosophical sophistication by legal scholars, health care professionals, scientists, and theologians as well as philosophers, paying particular attention to women's perspectives and to issues that concern women. Organized around issues rather than techniques and featuring unusually clear introductions to current ethical and legal debates, the text sets the conceptual framework for addressing issues of prudence, morality, and public policy while providing the broadest possible context for the readings and teasing out the connections among them. Designed for a wide range of courses and for students at many levels, the anthology provides both a firm grounding in the basics--the biology of human reproduction, the specific procedures involved in various reproductive techniques, and the psychology of infertility--and a broad range of readings that provide the depth for more advanced thinking. Other unique features are a section on professional responsibilities that will appeal to more scientifically oriented students, a detailed study of the Baby M case that raises profound questions about the legal treatment of reproduction, and an annotated reading list that guides students past today's welter of popular ephemera to many important but lesser-known sources |
| Analysis |
Humans Reproduction Ethics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Bioethics.
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Human experimentation in medicine.
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Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medical ethics.
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Reproductive Techniques.
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Bioethics.
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Ethics, Medical.
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| Author |
Alpern, Kenneth D.
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| LC no. |
92008252 |
| ISBN |
0195074351 (paperback) |
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