Creating the Child

The Ethics, Law and Practice of Assisted Procreation

Edited by Donald Evans and Neil Pickering

This volume of essays, together with its companion Conceiving the Embryo: Ethics, Law and Practice in Human Embryology (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1996, ISBN 90-411-0208-6) is the result of a concerted action in the BIOMED programme of the European Commission, which was coordinated by the Editor. Clinicians, lawyers and philosophers explore the theoretical and practical problems presented by the new technologies in assisted human reproduction in Eastern, Central and Western Europe. The essays reveal considerable dissonance in existing and proposed legislation, both within and between European countries, and examine the rights of parents and children involved in these new procedures.

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Editor:

Donald Evans

Neil Pickering

Category:

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Health Law

BIC2:

Medical & healthcare law, International humanitarian law

ISBN13:

9789041102072

Publication Year:

1996

Edition info:

Version:

Hardback

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

384 pp.

Imprint:

Martinus Nijhoff

Language:

English

Table of contents

List of Figures and Tables.
Introduction.
1. Creating the Child; D. Evans.
Part 1: Infertility and the Role of Medicine.
2. Assisted Conception: The State of the Art; J. Parsons.
3. Control of Human Reproduction: A Clinical Perspective on Bioethical Problems; G.C. di Renzo, et al.
4. The Clinical Classification of Infertility; D. Evans.
6. Ad hominem: A Consideration of a Feminist Critique of the Moral Discourse of Embryologists and Others; N. Pickering.
Part 2: Assisted Procreation: Rights and Duties.
7. Is a `Hands off' Policy to Reproduction Preferable to Artificial Intervention? M. Mori.
8. Naturally Conceived: The Idea of the Natural in Moral Arguments About Assisted Conception; N. Pickering.
9. A Right to Procreate? Assisted Conception, Ordinary Procreation and Adoption; M. Evans.
10. Child or Parent Oriented Controls of Reproductive Technologies? D. Neri.
11. Legal Approaches to Motherhood in Hungary; J. Sándor.
12. The Interaction of Rationality and Freedom of Conscience in Legislation on Controversial Bioethical Issues; E. Bernat.
Part 3: Assisted Procreation and the Interests of the Child.
13. The Example of Adoption for Medically Assisted Conception; K.W. Ruyter.
14. The Rights of Children to Information Following Assisted Conception; J.-M. Thévoz.
15. Donor Anonymity in the Dutch Draft of an Artificial Insemination Act; J. Hubben.
16. Anonymity of the Donor in the Spanish Act on Techniques of Assisted Reproduction; J.V. Martínez.
17. Assisted Reproduction and Parent-Infant Bonding; K. Schultz.
Part 4: The Need for Regulation.
18. Prioritising Assisted Conception Services: A Public Health Perspective; J. Martin.
19. Artificial Insemination in Italy: The Current Legal Situation and Discussion of Possible Future Legislation; G. Ferrando.
20. Bioethics and New Reproductive Technologies in Russia; I.A. Yakovlevitch.
21. Assisted Reproduction in Greece; P. Dalla-Vorgia.
22. The Legal Situation of Assisted Reproduction in Spain; J.V. Martínez.
23. Patient Perceptions of Assisted Conception Services; M. Dolanksa, D. Evans.
Part 5: Assisted Procreation and the Law.
24. Legal Consensus and Divergence in Europe in the Area of Assisted Conception – Room for Harmonisation? L. Nielsen.
25. The Austrian Act on Procreative Medicine: Scope, Impacts and Inconsistencies; E. Bernat, E. Vranes.
26. Assisted Procreation in German Law; E. Deutsch.
27. Infertility, Inability and Rights: An English Legal Case Study; A.J. Klotsko.
28. French Assisted Reproduction Legislation; C. Byk.
Index.

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