Test tube families
Subtitle: why the fertility market needs legal regulation
By: Naomi R. Cahn.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780814716823
Subjects: Fertilization in vitro, Human -- Law and legislation -- United States
Description: While assisted reproductive technology (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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The treatment plan (for legal issues); title: The treatment plan for creating babies; title: Market regulation; title: Parenting regulation; title: Donating to parenthood; title: Donor identity?; title: Barriers to conception; title: Expensive dreams; title: What is wrong with technology?; title: Baby steps : going to market; title: Five parent families? : a parenting proposition; title: Finding out.