Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation Contributor(s): Cahn, Naomi R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814716822 ISBN-13: 9780814716823 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Science & Technology - Law | Medical Law & Legislation - Law | Family Law - General |
Dewey: 346.730 |
LCCN: 2008037014 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.19 lbs) 304 pages |
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Publisher Description: The birth of the first test tube baby in 1978 focused attention on the sweeping advances in assisted reproductive technology (ART), which is now a multi-billion-dollar business in the United States. Sperm and eggs are bought and sold in a market that has few barriers to its skyrocketing growth. While 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. How should the use of gametic material be regulated? Should recipients be able to choose the "best" sperm and eggs? Should a child ever be able to discover the identity of her gamete donor? Who can claim parental rights? |
Contributor Bio(s): Cahn, Naomi R.: - Naomi Cahn is John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. Her previous books include Red Families v. Blue Families, Test Tube Families (NYU Press 2009), Families By Law: An Adoption Reader (NYU Press 2004), and Confinements: Fertility and Infertility in Contemporary Culture. |