Author : Susan Martha Kahn
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780822325987
Explores the debates about new reproductive technologies in Israel and how they fit with Orthodox Jewish laws concerning parentage and Jewish identity.
Author : Emanuel Feldman
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780881255867
All this presents challenges on religious as well as practical levels. Halakha - Jewish Law and Ethics - has much to say about this. For the past quarter century, discussions on the topic have appeared in Tradition, the Journal of Jewish Thought published by the Rabbinical Council of America. Collected here, they offer the general reader an insight into how classic Jewish Law continues to offer insights into the most contemporary of problems.
Author : Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845458362
Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of families within local Jewish populations. The contributors—anthropologists, bioethicists, jurists, physicians and biologists—highlight the complexities surrounding these treatments and show how biological relatedness is being construed as a technology of power; how genetics is woven into the production of identities; how reproductive technologies enhance the policing of boundaries. Donor insemination, IVF and surrogacy, as well as abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and human embryonic stem cell research, are explored within local and global contexts to convey an informed perspective on the wider Jewish Israeli environment.
Author : Judith Daar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300229038
A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of “inferior” genetic strains, ultimately came to be regarded as the great shame of the Progressive movement. Judith Daar, a prominent expert on the intersection of law and medicine, argues that current attitudes toward the potential users of modern assisted reproductive technologies threaten to replicate eugenics’ same discriminatory practices. In this book, Daar asserts how barriers that block certain people’s access to reproductive technologies are often founded on biases rooted in notions of class, race, and marital status. As a result, poor, minority, unmarried, disabled, and LGBT individuals are denied technologies available to well-off nonminority heterosexual applicants. An original argument on a highly emotional and important issue, this work offers a surprising departure from more familiar arguments on the issue as it warns physicians, government agencies, and the general public against repeating the mistakes of the past.
Author : Morgan Clarke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845459237
Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religious authority in the region through a combination of in-depth field research in Lebanon and an exhaustive survey of the Islamic legal literature. Lebanon, home to both Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities, provides a valuable site through which to explore the overall dynamism and diversity of global Islamic debate. As this book shows, Muslim perspectives focus on the moral propriety of such controversial procedures as the use of donor sperm and eggs as well as surrogacy arrangements, which are allowed by some authorities using surprising and innovative legal arguments. These arguments challenge common stereotypes of the rigidity and conservatism of Islamic law and compel us to question conventional contrasts between ‘liberal’ and Islamic notions of moral freedom, as well as the epistemological assumptions of anthropology’s own ‘new kinship studies’. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Islam and the impact of reproductive technology on the global social imaginary.
Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521435888
New developments in reproductive technology have made headlines since the birth of the world's first in vitro fertilization baby in 1978. But is embryo experimentation ethically acceptable? What is the moral status of the early human embryo? And how should a democratic society deal with so controversial an issue, where conflicting views are based on differing religious and philosophical positions? These controversial questions are the subject of this book, which, as a current compendium of ideas and arguments on the subject, makes an original contribution of major importance to this debate. Peter Singer is the author of many books, including Practical Ethics (CUP, 1979), Marx (Hill & Wang, 1980), and Should the Baby Live? (co-authored with Helga Kuhse, Oxford U.P., 1986).
Author : Adin Steinsaltz
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780465020638
An Israeli rabbi and scholar conveys the spirit of the Talmud as he treats its composition, traditions, structure, and laws
Author : Maureen McNeil
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fecundidad humana - Congresos
ISBN : 9780312035990
This collection of essays provides a comprehensive, original and well-researched overview of the social developments associated with the new reproductive technologies. The introduction establishes the context for the essays, particularly by providing one of the first major assessments of the significance of work on new reproductive technologies for the field of the sociology of technology as a whole.
Author : Jennifer Merchant
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1789204321
Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly with similar culinary tastes, music and pop culture, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. Discrimination written into French law acutely contrasts with non-discriminatory access to ART in Belgium. The contributors of this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States, representing different disciplines: law, political science, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.
Author : Marit Melhuus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0857455028
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 role of science, religion and ethics in state policies. Even though the book takes reproductive technologies as its focus, it reveals much about vital processes that are central to contemporary Norwegian society.
