Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies : : The Case of France and Belgium / / ed. by Jennifer Merchant.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Brunet, Laurence,; Courduriès, Jérôme,; Gaille, Marie,; Gross, Martine,; Herbrand, Cathy,; Hudson, Nicky,; Mathieu, Séverine,; Mehl, Dominique,; Merchant, Jennifer,; Pennings, Guido,; Sosson, Jehanne,; Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Michael,; Théry, Irène,
• HerausgeberIn: Merchant, Jennifer,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 43
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)

Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly with similar culinary tastes, music and pop culture, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. Discrimination written into French law acutely contrasts with non-discriminatory access to ART in Belgium. The contributors of this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States, representing different disciplines: law, political science, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword. Recognizing Donor-Conceived Families: A Major Issue in Europe’s Bioethics Debates -- Introduction -- Part I. Visible Borders: Law and Public Policy -- Chapter 1. ART and French Law: The Advantages and Inconveniences of the Therapeutic Model -- Chapter 2. ART and Surrogacy in Belgium: No Borders for Access – Few Borders for Kinship -- Part II. Invisible Borders, France, Belgium -- Chapter 3. Does the Embryo Make the Family? Access to Embryo Donation in France -- Chapter 4. Access to ART in France and Belgium: The Standpoint of Four ART Practitioners -- Chapter 5. Removing Anonymity for Egg and Sperm Donors? (Re-)Igniting the Debate in Belgium -- Part III. Same-Sex Families and Surrogacy -- Chapter 6. When French Couples Become Parents through Surrogacy: Examining the Relationship with the Surrogate -- Chapter 7. Using ART or Surrogacy: Designating Third Parties in the Reproductive Process, and Representing Family Ties in Same-Sex Families -- Chapter 8. Queer Families Online: The Internet as a Resource for Accessing and Facilitating Surrogacy and ART in France and the United States -- Part IV. Cross-Border Practices -- Chapter 9. Single Men and Women Barred from Using ART in France -- Chapter 10. Cross-Border Reproductive Care for French Patients in Belgium -- Chapter 11. Is ART a ‘National Issue’? -- Conclusion -- Index