Family-making : contemporary ethical challenges /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Issues in biomedical ethics Issues in biomedical ethics.
Subject:	Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Adoption -- Moral and ethical aspects. Bioethics. Reproductive Techniques -- ethics. Parenting. Adoption. Bioethics. Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12015375

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Other authors / contributors:	Baylis, Françoise, 1961- editor. McLeod, Carolyn, editor.
ISBN:	9780191019289 0191019283 9780191757099 0191757098 9780199656066 0199656061
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Family-making. First edition 9780199656066

Table of 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.

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