Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Argentina: hopes, results, and barriers / Luisa Barn -- Australia: choice and diversity in regulation and record keeping / Helen Szoke -- Canada: the long road to regulation / Jean Haase -- Finland: unregulated practices, familiarity, and legality / Maili Malin, Riitta Burrell -- Germany: the changing legal and social culture / Petra Thorn -- Hong Kong: a social, legal, and clinical overview / Ernest Ng . [and others] -- Israel: every person has the right to have children / Ruth Landau -- New Zealand: from secrecy and shame to openness and acceptance / Ken Daniels -- Poland: provision and guidelines for third party assisted conception / Eleonora Bielawska-Batorowicz -- Singapore: practice and challenges / Rosaleen Ow -- South Africa: cultural diversity / Charlene Laurence Carbonatto -- The United Kingdom: evolution of a statutary regulatory approach / Eric Blyth -- The United States of America: regulation, technology, and the marketplace / Eric Blyth with Jean Benward. |
Summary |
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 in thirteen countries dispersed through North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects. |
Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation. |
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Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
Indexed Term |
Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Subject |
Assisted reproductive technology. |
Added Author |
Blyth, Eric.
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Landau, Ruth, 1946-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Third party assisted conception across cultures. London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004 1843100851 1843100843 (DLC) 2004002661 (OCoLC)52784735 |
ISBN |
1417501022 (electronic book) |
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9781417501021 (electronic book) |
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9781843100843 |
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1843100843 |
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1846424348 (electronic book) |
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9781846424342 (electronic book) |
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9781846424342 |
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