Relevant to students, academics and practitioners across the globe, this original volume highlights contemporary issues associated with assisted reproduction and embryology and critically analyzes the law surrounding human reproduction in the light of case law and technological developments since the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (HFE Act) Act was passed in 1990.
Tackling issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, the authors identify and evaluate areas that have provoked intense public and academic debate as well as those where further or renewed regulation is needed. Focusing primarily on the legal and ethical issues involved in regulating this area in the UK, which is at the forefront of developing legislation in this area, this book has international relevance as many countries have used the UK as a model for their own legislation.
This text is suitable for a broad range of readers, including legal academics, law students and practitioners interested in the areas of medical/healthcare law and ethics, bioethics and moral philosophy, family law, sociology and reproductive medicine and genetics.
"[Human Fertilisation and Embryology does] a wonderful
job of encouraging readers to think critically about regulatory issues
around human reproductive science, and to remember the very subjective
nature of ‘‘the perfect child’’" - Julie McCandless, Feminist Legal Studies, vol. 15 no. 3 (2007)
1. The Quest for a Perfect Child: How Far Should the Law Intervene? Hazel Biggs 2. Conceptions of Welfare Eric Blyth 3. Rethinking the Pre-Conception Welfare Principle Emily Jackson 4. Paying Gamete Donors Does Not Wrong The Future Child Heather Draper 5. Unforeseen Uses of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Ethical and Legal Issues Jess Buxton 6. Equality of Access to NHS-Funded IVF Treatment in England and Wales Laura Riley 7. Parenting Genetically Unrelated Children: A Comparison of Embryo Donation and Adoption Fiona MacCallum 8. Unconsidered Inconsistencies: Parenthood and Assisted Conception Kirsty Horsey 9. Beyond Genetic and Gestational Dualities: Surrogacy Agreements, Legal Parenthood and Choice in Family Formation Robin McKenzie 10. Beyond Health and Disability: Rethinking the 'Foetal Abnormality' Ground in Abortion Law Nicolette Priaulx 11. The Abortion Debate Today Ellie Lee
Scientific and clinical advances, social and political developments and the impact of healthcare on our lives raise profound ethical and legal questions. Medical law and ethics have become central to our understanding of these problems, and are important tools for the analysis and resolution of problems – real or imagined.
In this series, scholars at the forefront of biomedical law and ethics will contribute to the debates in this area, with accessible, thought-provoking, and sometimes controversial ideas. Each book in the series will develop an independent hypothesis and argue cogently for a particular position. One of the major contributions of this series is the extent to which both law and ethics are utilised in the content of the books, and the shape of the series itself.
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