Dani Singer & Myra Hunter 
Assisted Human Reproduction [PDF ebook] 
Psychological and Ethical Dilemmas

With contributions from: Eric Blyth, Ken Daniels, Julia Feast,
Robert Lee, Nina Martin, Alexina Mc Whinnie, Derek Morgan, Clare
Murray, Sharon Pettle, Claire Potter, Jim Richards and Francoise
Shenfield

The separation of procreation from conception has broadened
notions of parenthood and created novel dilemmas. A woman may carry
a foetus derived from gametes neither or only one of which came
from her or her partner; or she may carry a foetus created using in
vitro fertilisation (IVF) with the purpose of handing it to two
other parents one, neither or both of whom may be genetically
related to the prospective child. Parents may consist of single-sex
couples, only one of them genetically related to the child; the
prospective mother may be past her menopause; and genetic
parenthood after death is now achievable. In a world increasingly
reliant on medical science, how can the argument that equates
traditional with natural and novel with unnatural/unethical be
justified? Should there be legislation, which is notoriously slow
to change, in a field driven by dazzling new possibilities at ever
faster rate; particularly when restrictions differ from country to
country, so that those who can afford it travel elsewhere for their
treatment of choice? Whose rights are paramount – the adults hoping
to build a family or the prospective child(ren)s future well being?
On what basis can apparently competing rights be regulated or
adjudicated and how and to what extent can these be enforced in
practice?

Table des matières

Contributors.

Foreword (Professor Susan Golombok).

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Assisted human reproduction: contemporary policy
and practice in the UK (Eric Blyth, Nina Martin and Claire
Potter).

Chapter 2: Issues of gamete donation and sex selection: a
clinician’s view (Francoise Shenfield).

Chapter 3: Ethical issues – the major faiths: a personal
view (Jim Richards).

Chapter 4: Human reproduction and human rights (Derek
Morgan and Robert G. Lee).

Chapter 5: Donor-assisted conception: what can we learn
from adoption? (Julia Feast).

Chapter 6: Children raised in assisted human reproduction
families: the evidence (Clare Murray).

Chapter 7: Disclosure and development: ‘taking the bady
home was just the beginning’ (Alexina M. Mc Whinnie).

Chapter 8: Psychological therapy and counselling with
individuals and families afrter donor conception (Sharon A.
Pettle).

Chapter 9: Policy development in third party reproduction: an
international perspective (Ken Daniels).

Appendix: Resources.

Index.

A propos de l’auteur

Dani Singer is the editor of Assisted Human Reproduction: Psychological and Ethical Dilemmas, published by Wiley.

Myra Sally Hunter is Professor of Clinical Health Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, and a Clinical and Health Psychologist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.