| Description |
ix, 214 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Nancy Hartsock -- 1. Introduction / Patricia Boling -- 2. The Tailor-Made Child: Implications for Women and the State / Patricia Bayer Richard -- 3. Fetal Personhood: Political Identity Under Construction / Deirdre Moira Condit -- 4. Fetal Endangerment Versus Fetal Welfare: Discretion of Prosecutors in Determining Criminal Liability / Ruth Ann Strickland and Marcia Lynn Whicker -- 5. A Gender Analysis of Policy Formation: The Case of Fetal Abuse / Jean Reith Schroedel and Paul Peretz -- 6. Punishment, Treatment, Empowerment: Three Approaches to Policy for Pregnant Addicts / Iris Marion Young -- 7. The ACLU Philosophy and the Right to Abuse the Unborn / Phillip E. Johnson -- 8. The Trope of the Dark Continent in the Fetal Harm Debates: "Africanism" and the Right to Choice / Lisa C. Bower -- 9. "Surrogate Mothering" and Women's Freedom: A Critique of Contracts for Human Reproduction / Mary Lyndon Shanley |
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10. The "Gift" of a Child: Commercial Surrogacy, Gift Surrogacy, and Motherhood / Uma Narayan |
| Summary |
The growing availability of unprecedented reproductive technologies has raised equally unprecedented moral and political questions, not only for pregnant women but for all those who wish the state to act humanely and wisely in this extraordinarily sensitive arena. In this timely and provocative volume a group of distinguished feminist scholars explore the ethics and the politics of issues such as surrogacy, genetic testing, in utero surgery, genetic intervention, in vitro fertilization, and fetal endangerment. Expecting Trouble is essential reading for scholars and students of women and politics, women and public policy, sexual ethics, and medical ethics |
| Analysis |
Humans Reproduction Law |
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Contracts |
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Foetal rights |
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Foetus |
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Human rights |
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In vitro fertilisation |
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Medical genetics |
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Overseas item |
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Reproduction |
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Surrogate mothers |
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United States |
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Women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Fetus -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Human reproduction -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Surrogate mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Reproductive Techniques.
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Fetus.
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Pregnancy.
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Substance-Related Disorders.
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Surrogate Mothers.
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Women's Rights.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Genre/Form |
Legislation.
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| Author |
Boling, Patricia Ann.
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| LC no. |
95006159 |
| ISBN |
081332002X (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
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0813320038 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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