Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies - 9781316613627

Name: Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies - 9781316613627
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Regulating Assisted Reproductive TechnologiesNew Horizons\nAuthor(s): Amel Alghrani\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781316613627, 978-1316613627\nSynopsis\nReproductive science continues to revolutionise reproduction and propel us further into uncharted territories. The revolution signalled by the birth of Louise Brown after IVF in 1978, prompted governments across Europe and beyond into regulatory action. Forty years on, there are now dramatic and controversial developments in new reproductive technologies. Technologies such as uterus transplantation that may enable unisex gestation and babies gestated by dad; or artificial wombs that will completely divorce reproduction from the human body and allow babies to be gestated by machines, usher in a different set of legal, ethical and social questions to those that arose from IVF. This book revisits the regulation of assisted reproduction and advan.