These essays explore the nature and limits of individual autonomy in law, policy, and the work of regulatory agencies. The authors ask searching questions about the nature and scope of the regulation of 'private' lives - from intimacies, personal relationships, and domestic lives to reproduction. They question the extent to which the law does, or should, protect individual autonomy. Recent rapid advances in the development of new technologies, particularly those concerned with human genetics and assisted reproduction, have generated new questions - practical, social, legal, and ethical -...