From IVF to immortality
Subtitle: controversy in the era of reproductive technology
By: Ruth Deech, Anna Smajdor.
Contributors: Smajdor, Anna.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780199219780; 9780199219797
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority; Great Britain. -- Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority; Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain; Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain; Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Human reproduction -- Government policy -- Great Britain; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted -- legislation & jurisprudence -- Great Britain; Embryo Research -- ethics -- Great Britain; Embryo Research -- legislation & jurisprudence -- Great Britain; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted -- ethics -- Great Britain
Description: This text provides a clear, simple account of techniques involved in assisted reproduction and embryo research. It explores controversies raised by developments in reproductive technology since the first IVF baby in 1978, such as 'saviour siblings', designer babies, reproductive cloning and embryo research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reproductive technologies and the birth of the HFEA; title: Ethics, embryos, and infertility; title: Saviour siblings, designer babies, and sex selection; title: Fertility is a feminist issue; title: Private lives and public policy : the story of Diane Blood; title: Human rights and reproduction; title: Deconstructing the family; title: Embryonic stem cells and therapeutic cloning.