The Artificial Womb on Trial
The Artificial Womb on Trial
Artificial womb technology is approaching over the scientific horizon. Recent proof-of-principle experiments using foetal animals have prompted a new surge of bioethical interest in the topic: scholars have asked what ectogenesis would mean for individuals, family, oppressed groups, and society at large; how we can or should regulate the technology; and whose interests motivate ectogenic research. However, a full investigation of the bioethics of ectogenesis must ask, 'how do we get there?' This Element places the research and development process itself under the microscope and explores the bioethical issues raised by human subject trials of ectogenic prototypes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Product details
February 2025Hardback
9781009544504
80 pages
229 × 152 mm
Not yet published - available from February 2025
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Beyond barbarism
- 3. Mother machines
- 4. The 'stranded mountain climber'
- 5. Spare parts
- 6. The convergence argument
- 7. Life in the petri dish
- 8. Animal research and human embryoids
- 9. Prematurity and the placenta problem
- 10. Pre-term survival and the foetal sheep
- 11. Size matters
- 12. Candidates for experimental ectogestation
- 13. Trials and treatments
- 14. Absolute (de)termination
- 15. The experimental child
- 16. Ambitions, outcomes, and non-identity
- 17. Conclusions
- References.
