The art of making children : the new world of assisted reproductive technology / François Ansermet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ansermet, François, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reproductive technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

1st

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

Advances in assisted reproductive technology are producing a new world whose boundaries and implications have yet to be fully explored and understood. New advances are announced and hit the headlines with dizzying regularity, triggering the hopes and aspirations of some, and the fears of others. What is possible? What are the implications? What should be permissible? Who should decide?Medically assisted reproductive techniques were developed to treat sterility and infertility. However, in parallel this has created a demand for applications outside the fields for which these technologies were originally intended. This book explores the issues that surround medically assisted reproduction by addressing them from the perspective of four key areas: the mystery of procreation and the enigma of origin and where we come from; the question of difference and alterity in procreation (be it the breaking down of the notion that one comes from two in heterologous procreation to the aspirations for same-sex procreation, or the blurring of chronology and generations through cryoconservation); the place of destiny, including how to think about individual destinies in an age of increasingly accessible gene sequencing paired with a growing link between procreation and prediction; and an exploration of how clinicians and professionals can respond to the subjective experiences of those who resort to medically assisted reproduction, and the singularity of each person's response to the difficult and complex questions it raises.-- Google Books.

Contents:

COVER

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Introduction

PART I QUESTIONS OF ORIGIN

Introduction to Part I

CHAPTER ONE The gift of life

CHAPTER TWO The child explorer

CHAPTER THREE Why a child at all costs?

CHAPTER FOUR Sexuality and procreation

CHAPTER FIVE The father in procreation

CHAPTER SIX Being another

CHAPTER SEVEN New modes of origin

CHAPTER EIGHT Death in procreation

PART II QUESTIONS OF DIFFERENCE

Introduction to Part II

CHAPTER NINE Donor insemination

CHAPTER TEN Same-sex procreation

CHAPTER ELEVEN The child who comes from the cold

CHAPTER TWELVE A desire to clone

PART III QUESTIONS OF DESTINY

Introduction to Part III

CHAPTER THIRTEEN A present-day oracle

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The tragedies of predictions

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The uncertainty of predictions

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The aspirations of pre-implantation diagnoses

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Procreation in the web of prediction

PART IV BEYOND PROCREATION

Introduction to Part IV

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The mutations of the Symbolic

CHAPTER NINETEEN Programmed not to be programmed

CHAPTER TWENTY The enclaves of the unexpected

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The fault line of origin

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Everything can always change

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 23, 2017).

ISBN:

9780429920158

0429920156

9780429905926

0429905920

9780429481154

0429481152

9781782415893

1782415890

OCLC:

1063782249