Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy : A Global Perspective.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (55 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Complex issues in Global Perspective -- Foreword -- 1. Salla Silvola, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Justice, Finland -- 1.1 Regulations in the Nordic Countries -- 1.2 IVF surrogacy is prohibited in all the Nordic countries -- 1.3 Upcoming domestic reforms -- 1.4 Cross-border issues -- 2. Helga Sól Ólafsdóttir, Social Worker and Assistant Professor, University of Iceland -- 2.1 Counselling and ART -- 2.2 "What is wrong with me?" -- 2.3 A process that goes on for years -- 2.4 "The law does not make sense" -- 2.5 Reluctant to seek help -- 3. Ole Schou, Managing Director of Cryos International, Danish Sperm Banks -- 3.1 A change in demand -- 3.2 Ethical dilemmas -- 3.3 We need pragmatic regulations -- 4. Guido Pennings, Professor of Ethics and Bioethics at Ghent University -- 4.1 Harmonisation blocks future change -- 4.2 What are we going to harmonise? -- 4.3 Basic rights -- 4.4 What do we mean by harmonisation? -- 4.5 Do we agree on where to go? -- 4.6 Legal diversity is better -- 5. Ástríður Stefánsdóttir, Associate Professor, University of Iceland -- 5.1 Surrogacy as adoption rather than a health care service -- 5.2 Surrogacy as a health care service -- 5.3 The dual status of the surrogate -- 5.4 Surrogacy as adoption -- 6. Mala Naveen, Journalist and Author, Norway -- 6.1 If you can't have a baby, how far will you go to get one? -- 6.2 Infertility is a crisis -- 6.3 Not stereotypical career women -- 6.4 The Indian women -- 6.5 The book and the debate in Norway -- 7. Ruth Macklin, Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York -- 7.1 Surrogacy provides wider range of options for Indian women -- 7.2 Is it exploitation? -- 7.3 Coercion or lack of dignity -- 7.4 The motivation of Indian women to act as surrogates -- 7.5 Prohibition decreases options -- 8. Laurence Brunet. 8.1 Disparities in surrogacy legislation within the European Union -- 8.2 A common trend: gradual recognition of the parenthood of the intended parents of a child born through surrogacy -- Sammenfatning -- Abstracts from the PhD Sessions -- Anna Arvidsson, PhD Student, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University -- Kristin Engh Forde, PhD candidate, University of Oslo, Norway -- Elina Helosvuori, Doctoral Student, M.Soc.Sci, Unit of Sociology, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki -- Tiia R. Junnonaho -- Mag. Daniela Schuh, University of Vienna -- Jane Stoll, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University -- Sarah Jane Toledano, Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University -- Tatiana Tolstoy, PhD Student at the Faculty of Law, Lund, Sweden -- Unavngivet -- Unavngivet.
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Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.