Research Catalog

Title

Human reproduction, emerging technologies, and conflicting rights / Robert Blank, Janna C. Merrick ; [foreword by Arthur L. Caplan].

Author

Blank, Robert H.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c1995.

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Additional Authors

Merrick, Janna C.

Description

xiv, 269 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Examines the policy conflicts that have arisen as a result of advancing technologies in the area of human reproduction, discussing abortion, sterilization, assisted reproduction, surrogate motherhood, prenatal intervention, fetal and embryo research, and the care of critically ill newborns.

Subject

• Technology Assessment, Biomedical
• Ethics, Medical
• Reproductive Techniques
• Public Policy
• Human reproductive technology > Moral and ethical aspects
• Human reproductive technology > Government policy
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-249) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Reproductive rights : ethical and policy context -- Abortion : private choices, public actions -- The right to control fertility : sterilization and contraception -- Assisted reproduction : expanding the right to have children -- Surrogate motherhood : redefining the family -- Prenatal intervention : choosing the characteristics of unborn children -- Conflict in the maternal-fetal relationship -- Issues in fetal and embryo research -- Reproductive rights and neonatal care -- Changing reproductive rights : technology and policy.

ISBN

0871879387 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95010455^

OCLC

• 32202329
• SCSB-12658295

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library