Third Party Assisted Conception Across Cultures: Social, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Eric Blyth, Ruth Landau

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Involving a third person in a child's conception raises many difficult issues and dilemmas. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the place of third party assisted conception within health care provision, drawing on local ethical and religious standpoints as well as political and economic factors. Eric Blyth and Ruth Landau have brought together authors from a broad range of professional backgrounds to consider the social, legal and ethical aspects of third party assisted conception in thirteen countries dispersed through North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia. Third Party Assisted Conception Across Cultures addresses many contemporary social issues including the role of the state in family creation, the changing forms and conceptualizations of a 'family' and concerns about the potential commodification of body-parts and functions. All health care practitioners and policymakers who wish to develop their knowledge and understanding of the policies underlying third party assisted conception practice and the ethical context surrounding it, will find this book invaluable.

✦ Table of Contents

Third Party Assisted Conception Across Cultures......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
1. Argentina: Hopes,Results and Barriers......Page 23
2. Australia: Choice and Diversity in Regulation and Record Keeping......Page 38
3. Canada: The Long Road to Regulation......Page 57
4. Finland: Unregulated Practices, Familiarity and Legality......Page 75
5. Germany: The Changing Legal and Social Culture......Page 96
6. Hong Kong: A Social, Legal and Clinical Overview......Page 114
7. Israel: Every Person has the Right to Have Children......Page 131
8. New Zealand: From Secrecy and Shame to Openness and Acceptance......Page 150
9. Poland: Provision and Guidelines for Third Party Assisted Conception......Page 170
10. Singapore: Practice and Challenges......Page 191
11. South Africa: Cultural Diversity......Page 209
12. The United Kingdom: Evolution of a Statutary Regulatory Approach......Page 228
13. The United States of America: Regulation, Technology and the Marketplace......Page 248
Summary and Conclusions......Page 268
Editor and Contributor Biographies......Page 279
Subject Index......Page 282
Name Index......Page 288