Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender

ISBN-13: 9789048124749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str.

Frida Simonstein

Opis

This book is the first to bring together the three tightly-related topics of assisted reproduction, enhancing and gender. It covers past reproductive technologies, considers future ones, and offers detailed discussions of assisted reproduction

Spis treści

Introduction.- Prologue Introduction Frida Simonstein PART I: ART – A 30 YEARS RETROSPECTIVE 1. Current Status of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), Ariel Revel; 2. The Medicalization of Reproduction – a 30 Year Retrospective' Søren Holm; 3. Conceiving a New Right to Procreate, Marleen Eijkholt; PART II: ART – MIND THE GAP 4. 'Can’t Avoid it, Can’t Afford it‘: Assisted Reproduction in Israel and Bulgaria, Frida Simonstein and Ekaterina Balabanova; 5. Assisted Reproduction in Developing Countries: The Debate at a Turning Point, Effy Vayena; 6. Ethical and Socio-Cultural Aspects that Influence ART in Latin America, Ester Polak de Fried; PART III: GENDERED FUTURES 7. Women, Work, and Children: Is There a Solution? Daniel Callahan; 8. Between Feclesness and Selfishnes: Is There a Biologically Optimal Time for Motherhood? Anna Smajdor; 9. Gendered Futures: Reproduction and Production in Women’s Lives, Harriet Bradley; PART IV: PARENTING 10. Is Transferred Parental Responsibility Legitimately Enforceable?Matti Häyry; 11. Reproduction, Responsibility and Rationality, Tom Buller; 12. Male or Female we Will Create Them. The Ethics of Sex Selection For Non-medical Reasons, David Heyd; PART V: NON-GENDERED FUTURES 13. Artificial Reproductive Technologies and the Advent of the Artificial Womb, Frida Simonstein; 14. Human Before Sex? Ectogenesis as a Way to Equality, Tuija Takala; 15. The Glass Womb, Iain Brassington; 16. A survey of People’s Attitude Towards the Artificial Womb and Ectogenesis in Israel, Frida Simonstein and MichalMashiach-Eizenberg; Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgements; Index of Names.

Blurb

'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.