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Surrogacy, law and human rights / edited by Paula Gerber [and] Katie O'Byrne.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surrogate mothers--Legal status, laws, etc--Australia.
- Surrogate mothers.
- Surrogate motherhood.
- Human rights.
- Surrogate mothers--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Human rights--Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory. This book provides a unique and insightful examination into the underexplored issues of how domestic and international law is responding to the sharp increase in the use of surrogacy. The work presents critical analysis of the current regulation of surrogacy via domestic law in Australia, India and the USA, and international law in the form of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Including a wide range of views from academics and practitioners around the world, the contributors consider what could be
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; 1 Surrogacy and Human Rights: Contemporary, Complex, Contested and Controversial; 2 Surrogacy: A Personal Perspective; 3 Theoretical Approaches to Human Dignity, Human Rights and Surrogacy; 4 Through the Looking-Glass: A Proposal for National Reform of Australia's Surrogacy Legislation; 5 Extra-Territoriality and Surrogacy: The Problem of State and Territory Moral Sovereignty; 6 Souls in the House of Tomorrow: The Rights of Children Born via Surrogacy; 7 The Surrogate in Commercial Surrogacy: Legal and Ethical Considerations
- 8 Recognition of Parentage in Surrogacy Arrangements in Australia9 Surrogacy in India: Strong Demand, Weak Laws; 10 Surrogacy: American Style; Index
- Notes:
- "First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4724-5126-0
- 1-317-04822-9
- 1-315-61137-6
- 1-317-04821-0
- 1-4724-5125-2
- 9781315611372
- OCLC:
- 913698391
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