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Author Simonstein, Frida.

Title Womb politics : a short history of the future of human reproduction / Frida Simonstein
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and color)
Series The international library of bioethics ; volume 99
International library of bioethics ; 99.
Contents Man and Woman He Created -- Womb Politics in the Bible -- Demography Wars -- The Advent of the Pill -- The Abortion Wars -- Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ARTs) -- Is IVF an Ongoing Experiment? -- Reprogenetics -- The Artificial Womb (AW) -- A Survey of Lay Peoples Attitudes Toward the Artificial Womb and Ectogenesis in Israel
Summary This book offers a vision of politics that govern the womb; from antiquity (be fertile and replenish the earth), through the ages (hysterectomy, to extirpate womens hysteria), up to the present time (abortion wars; assisted reproduction), and into the future (reprogenetics; the artificial womb). It explores how the womb has served humanity, either tacitly or explicitly, through the ages and examines how women have accepted and still perceive the rules created by men as natural - including the new anti-abortion laws in the USA - because that is the way things are. The book also explores how the merging of assisted reproduction technologies and novel genetic tools (reprogenetics) will pose additional challenges to womb bearers, as all women will be made to reproduce with IVF. What is more, the advent of the artificial womb is in sight; the gender and social implications of this development would be enormous. Certainly not just another organ, the womb has been and remains a powerful tool that cannot be left to the decisions of half of the population. This book engages a wide audience, including women and men, professionals and laypersons who are interested in gender, politics, legislation, womens health, and ethics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects
Uterus -- Moral and ethical aspects
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects.
Reproductive rights.
Women's rights.
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Reproduction -- ethics
Ectogenesis -- ethics
Bible
Religion and Medicine
Uterus
Contraception -- ethics
Fertilization in Vitro -- ethics
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted -- ethics
Reproductive Rights
Women's Rights
Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects
Reproductive rights
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects
Women's rights
SUBJECT Israel https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007557
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783031116544
3031116542