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Problems of Conception : Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship / Marit Melhuus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857455024
  • 9780857455031
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 176.2
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: The Biotechnology Act in Norway, one of the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination.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.
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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

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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.

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