1st Edition

Embryos, Ethics, and Women's Rights Exploring the New Reproductive Technologies

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

Will procreation become just another commodity in the marketplace with “designer” sperm, ova, and embryos offered for sale? Will the attention and monies focused on the new reproductive technologies take away resources from infertility prevention, prenatal care, and adoption? If states move to regulate such practices, will this encourage widespread governmental interference in... Read more
Contents Preface
  • Introduction: Women’s Health and the New Reproductive Technologies
  • Reproductive Technologies: The Two Sides of the Glass Jar
  • In Vitro Fertilization, GIFT, and Related Technologies--Hope in a Test Tube
  • Fetal Imaging and Fetal Monitoring: Finding the Ethical Issues
  • Power, Certainty, and the Fear of Death
  • A Short Answer to “Who Decides?”
  • What the King Can Not See
  • Reproductive Technology and the Commodification of Life
  • Moral Pioneers: Women, Men, and Fetuses on a Frontier of Reproductive Technology
  • In Vitro Fertilization and Gender Politics
  • A Womb of His Own
  • Psychological Effects of the New Reproductive Technologies
  • Brave New Baby in the Brave New World
  • In Vitro Fertilization: Ethical Issues
  • Moral Reflections on the New Technologies: A Catholic Analysis
  • Procreative Liberty, Embryos, and Collaborative Reproduction: A Legal Perspective
  • Problems in Commercialized Surrogate Mothering
  • Reproductive Technologies and the Bottom Line
  • Technology, Power, and the State
  • Prenatal Screening and Discriminatory Attitudes About Disability
  • Eugenics: New Tools, Old Ideas
  • Women and Reproductive Technologies: A Partially Annotated Bibliography

Biography

Authored by Baruch, Elaine; D'Adamo, Amadeo F; Seager, Joni