'A well-edited, comprehensive and very readable volume, this is essential reading for anyone interested in issues of identity, relatedness and kinship in donor-assisted reproduction.' Hugh Whittall, Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Introduction Tabitha Freeman; Part I. Conceptualising Relatedness: 1. A British history of collaborative reproduction and the rise of the genetic connection Martin Richards; 2. Undoing kinship Jeanette Edwards; 3. Genetically challenged: the determination of legal parenthood in assisted reproduction Julie McCandless and Sally Sheldon; 4. On the moral importance of genetic ties in families John B. Appleby and Anja Karnein; 5. Who cares where you come from? Cultivating virtues of indifference Hallvard Lillehammer; 6. Legal kinship and connection in US donor families Naomi Cahn; 7. Relatedness in clinical practice Andrea Mechanick Braverman and Lucy Frith; Part II. Experiencing Relatedness: 8. Defining connections: gender and perceptions of relatedness in egg and sperm donation Rene Almeling; 9. The significance of relatedness for surrogates and their families Vasanti Jadva and Susan Imrie; 10. Frozen symbols of relatedness: Belgian patients and their decisions about unused cryopreserved embryos Veerle Provoost and Guido Pennings; 11. Family relationships in gay father families with young children in Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom Marcin Smietana, Sarah Jennings, Cathy Herbrand and Susan Golombok; 12. Stories of an absent 'father': single women negotiating relatedness through donor profiles Susanna Graham; 13. Infertility, gamete donation and relatedness in British South Asian communities Nicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley; 14. Families created by assisted reproduction: children's perspectives Lucy Blake, Sophie Zadeh, Helen Statham and Tabitha Freeman; 15. Making connections: contact between sperm donor relations Tabitha Freeman, Kate Bourne, Vasanti Jadva and Venessa Smith; 16. Relational lives, relational selves: assisted reproduction and the impact on grandparents Petra Nordqvist and Carol Smart.