Problems of Conception : Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship /
Melhuus, Marit
Problems of Conception : Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship / Marit Melhuus. - 1 online resource (186 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1 FRAMING THE ISSUES -- Chapter 2 CHILDREN OF ONE’S OWN -- Chapter 3 BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY: LEGISLATING ASSISTED CONCEPTION -- Chapter 4 THE INVIOLABILITY OF MOTHERHOOD -- Chapter 5 THE SORTING SOCIETY: KNOWLEDGE, SELECTION, ETHICS -- Chapter 6 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS: LEGAL (UN)CERTAINTIES -- Postscript SOME NOTES ON METHODOLOGY -- Appendix FERTILITY RATES, TRENDS AND POLICIES IN NORWAY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The Biotechnology Act in Norway, one of the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people’s choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state. The author pursues this significant datum ethnographically and addresses the issues surrounding contemporary biopolitics in Norway. This involves investigating such fundamental questions as the relation between individual and society, meanings of kinship and relatedness, the moral status of the embryo and the role of science, religion and ethics in state policies. Even though the book takes reproductive technologies as its focus, it reveals much about vital processes that are central to contemporary Norwegian society.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780857455024 9780857455031
10.1515/9780857455031 doi
Conception.
Fertilization (Biology).
Reproduction--Social aspects--Norway.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Anthropology (General), Sociology, Medical Anthropology.
176.2
Problems of Conception : Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship / Marit Melhuus. - 1 online resource (186 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1 FRAMING THE ISSUES -- Chapter 2 CHILDREN OF ONE’S OWN -- Chapter 3 BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY: LEGISLATING ASSISTED CONCEPTION -- Chapter 4 THE INVIOLABILITY OF MOTHERHOOD -- Chapter 5 THE SORTING SOCIETY: KNOWLEDGE, SELECTION, ETHICS -- Chapter 6 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS: LEGAL (UN)CERTAINTIES -- Postscript SOME NOTES ON METHODOLOGY -- Appendix FERTILITY RATES, TRENDS AND POLICIES IN NORWAY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The Biotechnology Act in Norway, one of the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people’s choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state. The author pursues this significant datum ethnographically and addresses the issues surrounding contemporary biopolitics in Norway. This involves investigating such fundamental questions as the relation between individual and society, meanings of kinship and relatedness, the moral status of the embryo and the role of science, religion and ethics in state policies. Even though the book takes reproductive technologies as its focus, it reveals much about vital processes that are central to contemporary Norwegian society.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780857455024 9780857455031
10.1515/9780857455031 doi
Conception.
Fertilization (Biology).
Reproduction--Social aspects--Norway.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Anthropology (General), Sociology, Medical Anthropology.
176.2