The birth of the first test tube baby in 1978 focused attention on the sweeping advances in assisted reproductive technology (ART), which is now a multi-billion-dollar business in the United States. Sperm and eggs are bought and sold in a market that has few barriers to its skyrocketing growth. While ART has been an invaluable gift to thousands of people, creating new families, the use of someone else's genetic material raises complex legal and public policy issues that touch on technological anxiety, eugenics, reproductive ...
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The birth of the first test tube baby in 1978 focused attention on the sweeping advances in assisted reproductive technology (ART), which is now a multi-billion-dollar business in the United States. Sperm and eggs are bought and sold in a market that has few barriers to its skyrocketing growth. While ART has been an invaluable gift to thousands of people, creating new families, the use of someone else's genetic material raises complex legal and public policy issues that touch on technological anxiety, eugenics, reproductive autonomy, identity, and family structure. How should the use of gametic material be regulated? Should recipients be able to choose the "best" sperm and eggs? Should a child ever be able to discover the identity of her gamete donor? Who can claim parental rights? Naomi R. Cahn explores these issues and many more in Test Tube Families , noting that although such questions are fundamental to the new reproductive technologies, there are few definitive answers currently provided by the law, ethics, or cultural norms. As a new generation of "donor kids" comes of age, Cahn calls for better regulation of ART, exhorting legal and policy-making communities to cease applying piecemeal laws and instead create legislation that sustains the fertility industry while simultaneously protecting the interests of donors, recipients, and the children that result from successful transfers.
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Very Good + in Near fine with Mylar Cover jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are unmarred. Binding is tight. 295pp.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 295 p. Contains: Tables, black & white, Figures. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2008037014 Type of material Book Personal name Cahn, Naomi R. Main title Test tube families: why the fertility market needs legal regulation / Naomi R. Cahn. Published/Created New York: New York University Press, c2009. Description viii, 295 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780814716823 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0814716822 (hbk. : alk. paper) LC classification KF3830. C34 2009 Contents The treatment plan for legal issues--The treatment plan for creating babies--Market regulation--Parenting regulation--Donating to parenthood--Donor identity--Barriers to conception--Expensive dreams--What is wrong with technology? --Baby steps: going to market--Five parent families? : a proposition--Finding out. Subjects Fertilization in vitro, Human--Law and legislation--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-288) and index. Dewey class no. 346.7301/7 Geographic area code n-us---National bib no. GBA8D1290 National bib agency no. 014821603 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn227931007 (OCoLC)227931007
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Ex-Library. "The use of someone else's genetic material raises complex legal and public policy issues that touch on technological anxiety, eugenics, reproductive autonomy, identity, and family structure." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. Ex-library with minimal markings, not affecting text, lacking dustjacket.
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