02884nam 2200613 a 450 991081066460332120200520144314.01-283-65558-60-85745-503-610.1515/9780857455031(CKB)2670000000259529(EBL)1040766(OCoLC)813004612(SSID)ssj0000756662(PQKBManifestationID)12301649(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756662(PQKBWorkID)10753383(PQKB)10868676(MiAaPQ)EBC1040766(Au-PeEL)EBL1040766(CaPaEBR)ebr10612456(CaONFJC)MIL396808(DE-B1597)636985(DE-B1597)9780857455031(EXLCZ)99267000000025952920120305d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrProblems of conception[electronic resource] issues of law, biotechnology, and kinship /Marit Melhuus1st ed.New York Berghahn Books20121 online resource (186 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-502-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1 FRAMING THE ISSUES -- Chapter 2 CHILDREN OF ONE’S OWN -- Chapter 3 BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY: LEGISLATING ASSISTED CONCEPTION -- Chapter 4 THE INVIOLABILITY OF MOTHERHOOD -- Chapter 5 THE SORTING SOCIETY: KNOWLEDGE, SELECTION, ETHICS -- Chapter 6 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS: LEGAL (UN)CERTAINTIES -- Postscript SOME NOTES ON METHODOLOGY -- Appendix FERTILITY RATES, TRENDS AND POLICIES IN NORWAY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEXThe Biotechnology Act in Norway, one of the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people's choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state. The author pursues this significant datum ethnographically and addresses the issues surrounding contemporary biopolitics in Norway. This involves investigating such fundamental questions as the relation between individual and society, meanings of kinship and relatedness, the moral status of the embryo and the rolConceptionReproductionSocial aspectsNorwayConception.ReproductionSocial aspects573.609481LC 56215rvkMelhuus Marit1667373MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810664603321Problems of conception4027136UNINA