Hazel Biggs

Human Fertilisation and Embryology

Reproducing Regulation
Herausgeber: Horsey, Kirsty; Biggs, Hazel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ideal for students, academics and practitioners, this text analyzes issues associated with assisted reproduction and embryology. Interdisciplinary in approach, it evaluates areas where there is debate and further/renewed regulation is needed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781844720910
• ISBN-10: 1844720918
• Artikelnr.: 26197107

Autorenporträt

Dr Kirsty Horsey is a lecturer in law at the University of Kent. She is reproduction editor of BioNews, a web and email based service of news, information and comment on assisted reproduction and human genetics. Hazel Biggs is Professor of Medical Law at Lancaster University. Previously she was Director of Medical Law at the University of Kent. Her work encompasses most areas of medical law with a particular emphasis on autonomy, choice and informed decision-making. She is an editor for Medical Law Review and is affiliated to the Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) at Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Quest for a Perfect Child: How Far Should the Law Intervene? 2.
Conceptions of Welfare 3. Rethinking the Pre-conception Welfare Principle
4. Paying Gamete Donors Does not Wrong the Future Child 5. Unforeseen Uses
of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Ethical and Legal Issues 6. Equality
of Access to NHS-funded IVF Treatment in England and Wales 7. Parenting
Genetically Unrelated Children: A Comparison of Embryo Donation and
Adoption 8. Unconsidered Inconsistencies: Parenthood and Assisted
Conception 9. Beyond Genetic and Gestational Dualities: Surrogacy
Agreements, Legal Parenthood and Choice in Family Formation 10. Beyond
Health and Disability: Rethinking the 'Foetal Abnormality' Ground in
Abortion Law 11. The Abortion Debate Today

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1. The Quest for a Perfect Child: How Far Should the Law Intervene? 2. Conceptions of Welfare 3. Rethinking the Pre-conception Welfare Principle 4. Paying Gamete Donors Does not Wrong the Future Child 5. Unforeseen Uses of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Ethical and Legal Issues 6. Equality of Access to NHS-funded IVF Treatment in England and Wales 7. Parenting Genetically Unrelated Children: A Comparison of Embryo Donation and Adoption 8. Unconsidered Inconsistencies: Parenthood and Assisted Conception 9. Beyond Genetic and Gestational Dualities: Surrogacy Agreements, Legal Parenthood and Choice in Family Formation 10. Beyond Health and Disability: Rethinking the 'Foetal Abnormality' Ground in Abortion Law 11. The Abortion Debate Today

Rezensionen

"[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)

"[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)