Problems of conception : issues of law, biotechnology, and kinship / Marit Melhuus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melhuus, Marit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conception.

Reproduction--Social aspects--Norway.

Reproduction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Biotechnology Act in Norway, one of the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people's choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state. The author pursues this significant datum ethnographically and addresses the issues surrounding contemporary biopolitics in Norway. This involves investigating such fundamental questions as the relation between individual and society, meanings of kinship and relatedness, the moral status of the embryo and the rol

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Chapter 1 FRAMING THE ISSUES

Chapter 2 CHILDREN OF ONE’S OWN

Chapter 3 BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY: LEGISLATING ASSISTED CONCEPTION

Chapter 4 THE INVIOLABILITY OF MOTHERHOOD

Chapter 5 THE SORTING SOCIETY: KNOWLEDGE, SELECTION, ETHICS

Chapter 6 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS: LEGAL (UN)CERTAINTIES

Postscript SOME NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

Appendix FERTILITY RATES, TRENDS AND POLICIES IN NORWAY

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283655583

1283655586

9780857455031

0857455036

OCLC:

813004612