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1 online resource |
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Preface; Contents; 1 Three Models of Surrogacy; Introduction; The Altruistic Model; Difficulties with Altruistic Surrogacy; The Commercial Model; Commercial Contracts; Contracts and Parental Rights; Relinquishment; Against Commercial Contracts; The Professional Model; Professional Norms; The Structure of the Professional Model; Licensing; Registration; Fees; Support Services; Protection for Surrogates; Intended Parents' Responsibilities; Conclusion; References; 2 Exploitation and Commodification; Introduction; Exploitation; Unfair Advantage; Invalid Consent; Fair Price |
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Taking Advantage of UnfairnessMutually Advantageous Exploitation; Permissible Exploitation; Fair Compensation; Being Complicit in Injustice; Domestic Surrogacy; Commodification; What Is Commodification?; Surrogates as Commodities; Reproductive Organs as Commodities; Babies as Commodities; Conclusion; References; 3 Altruism and Generosity; Introduction; Gifts; Gift Exchange; Community Sharing and Market Pricing Relationships; Moral Obligations in Gift Exchanges; Surrogacy and Community Sharing; Kinship and Social Connectedness; Relational Devaluation; Gift of Life; The Tyranny of the Gift |
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AltruismAltruistic Care; Descriptive Altruism; The Costs of the Altruistic Ideal; Gendering; Generosity; Generosity and Self-interest; Generosity at Work; Dimensions of Generosity; Gratitude; The Functions of Gratitude; Gratitude and Generosity in the Professional Model; Conclusion; References; 4 Trustworthiness and Care; Introduction; What Is Trust?; Calculative Trust; Relational Trust; Risk and Uncertainty; Trustworthiness; Trust; The External Environment; Human Psychology; Relational Trust in Surrogacy; Cues; Trust Within the Relationship; Trust and Transnational Surrogacy |
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Power and StatusThe Effects of Power; Power and Trust; Social Distance in Transnational Surrogacy; Trust and Domestic Surrogacy; Trusting Intended Parents; Trust in the Professions; What Is Care?; Dimensions of Care; Components of Trust in the Caring Professions; Professional Obligations ; Professional Vulnerability; Power and the Professions; Gestational Care and Trust; Conclusion; References; 5 Law and Regulation; Introduction; Legal Parentage; Genetic Relationship; Anchor 5; Physical Investment; Emotional and Social Costs; Maternal-Fetal-Attachment; Non-gestational Parenthood |
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Best InterestsIntention-Based Parentage; Objections to Intention-Based Parentage; Mechanisms and Timing; Our Proposal; Surrogacy Agreements; The Intended Baby's Rights and Interests; Abortion for Fetal Abnormality; Screening Intended Parents; Regulatory Power; Transnational Surrogacy; Conclusion; References; 6 The Professions and Professional Ethics; Introduction; Medical Profession; Embryo Transfer; Counselling; Social Workers; Midwives and Maternity Services; The Surrogate; Conscientious Objection to Abortion; Conclusion; References; 7 Hard Cases; Introduction |
| Summary |
This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy - the altruistic (unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model, both of which present social, ethical, and conceptual challenges. This book proposes a novel arrangement for surrogate motherhood - the professional model. Inspired by professions, such as nursing, teaching, and social work, the professional model acknowledges the caring motives that surrogate mothers have while at the same time compensating them for their work. Walker and Van Zyl adopt an evidence-based approach to explain that the professional model enables trust between intended parents and surrogates, provides professional support at every stage of the relationship, affords legal protections against exploitation and commodification, and recognizes the rights and interests of all parties, including the intended baby. The model applies to both transnational and domestic surrogacy and will be of great interest to policy makers, social researchers, bioethicists, legal scholars, fertility professionals, clinicians, and graduate students in psychology, philosophy, medicine and ethics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 21, 2017) |
| Subject |
Surrogate motherhood.
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Sociology.
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Ethics & moral philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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Politics & government.
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Sociology: family & relationships.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Surrogate motherhood
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Van Zyl, Liezl L., author
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| ISBN |
9781137586582 |
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1137586583 |
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