Test Tube Families : : Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation /

Test Tube Families : : Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation / / Naomi R. Cahn.

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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. Whil...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Cahn, Naomi R.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Initial Conceptions
  • 1. The Treatment Plan for Legal Issues
  • 2. The Treatment Plan for Creating Babies
  • Part II. The State of ART
  • 3. Market Regulation
  • 4. Parenting Regulation
  • 5. Donating to Parenthood
  • 6. Donor Identity
  • Part III. Race, Class, and Gender: Who Benefits?
  • 7. Barriers to Conception
  • 8. Expensive Dreams
  • 9. What Is Wrong with Technology?
  • Part IV. Baby Steps Forward
  • 10. Baby Steps
  • 11. Five-Parent Families?
  • 12. Finding Out
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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