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Title Family-making : contemporary ethical challenges / edited by Françoise Baylis and Carolyn McLeod.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Issues in biomedical ethics
Issues in biomedical ethics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Goods of parenting / Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift -- Goods of childhood and children's rights / Samantha Brennan -- Critique of the bionormative concept of the family / Charlotte Witt -- Families of assisted reproduction and adoption / Lucy Blake, Martin Richards, and Susan Golombok -- What is the value of procreation? / Christine Overall -- Unique value of adoption / Tina Rulli -- State regulation and assisted reproduction : balancing the interests of parents and children / Jurgen De Wispelaere and Daniel Weinstock -- "Not for the faint of heart" : assessing the status quo on adoption and parental licensing / Carolyn McLeod and Andrew Botterell -- On non-biological maternity, or "my daughter is going to be a father!" / Julie Crawford -- Special responsibilities of parents using technologically assisted reproduction / James Lindemann Nelson -- Adoptee vulnerability and post-adoptive parental obligation / Mianna Lotz -- Political geography of whites adopting Black children in the United States / Heath Fogg Davis -- Analogies to adoption in arguments against anonymous gamete donation : geneticizing the desire to know / Kimberly Leighton -- Transnational commercial contract pregnancy in India / Françoise Baylis -- Aged parenting through ART and other means / Jennifer A. Parks.
Summary A team of experts explore the ethics of making families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. They examine the moral choices involved, and the social norms that can distort decision-making, such as the norm in favour of having biologically related children, or the privileging of a traditional understanding of family.
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Subject Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Adoption -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Adoption.
Bioethics.
Bioethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Assisted reproductive technology.
Added Author Baylis, Françoise, 1961- editor.
McLeod, Carolyn, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Family-making. First edition 9780199656066 (DLC) 2013955760 (OCoLC)872702144
ISBN 9780191019289 (electronic book)
0191019283 (electronic book)
9780191757099
0191757098
9780199656066
0199656061