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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777869503321

Titolo

Ectogenesis : Artificial Womb Technology and the Future of Human Reproduction / / edited by Scott Gelfand, John R. Shook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006

ISBN

94-012-0345-8

1-4294-5820-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Value Inquiry Book Series ; ; 184

Disciplina

618.072

Soggetti

Ectogenesis

Gynecology - Research

Human reproduction - Experiments

Obstetrics - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A volume in Values in bioethics, ViB".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Richard T. Hull: Foreword -- Scott GELFAND: One: Introduction -- Peter SINGER and Deane WELLS: Two: Ectogenesis -- Julien S. MURPHY: Three: Is Pregnancy Necessary: Feminist Concerns about Ectogenesis -- Leslie CANNOLD: Four: Women, Ectogenesis, and Ethical Theory -- Rosemarie TONG: Five: Out of Body Gestation:In Whose Best Interests? -- Gregory PENCE: Six: What 's so Good about Natural Motherhood?(In Praise of Unnatural Gestation) -- Scott GELFAND: Seven: Ectogenesis and the Ethics of Care -- Maureen SANDER-STAUDT: Eight: Of Machine Born? A Feminist Assessment of Ectogenesis and Artificial Wombs -- Joan WOOLFREY: Nine: Ectogenesis: Liberation, Technological Tyranny,or Just More of the Same? -- Dien HO: Ten: Leaving People Alone: Liberalism, Ectogenesis, and the Limits of Medicine -- Jennifer BARD: Eleven: Immaculate Gestation? How Will Ectogenesis Change Current Paradigms of Social Relationships and Values? -- Joyce M. RASKIN and Nadav MAZOR: Twelve: The Artificial Womb and Human Subject Research -- John R. SHOOK: Thirteen: Bibliography on Ectogenesis -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

This book raises many moral, legal, social, and political, questions related to possible development, in the near future, of an artificial womb for human use. Is ectogenesis ever morally permissible? If so, under what circumstances? Will ectogenesis enhance or diminish women's reproductive rights and/or their economic opportunities? These are some of the difficult and crucial questions this anthology addresses and attempts to answer.