Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction
Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction
Susanna Graham, University of Cambridge
Fatemeh Ebtehaj, University of Cambridge
Martin Richards, University of Cambridge
Assisted reproduction challenges and reinforces traditional understandings of family, kinship and identity. Sperm, egg and embryo donation and surrogacy raise questions about relatedness for parents, children and others involved in creating and raising a child. How socially, morally or psychologically significant is a genetic link between a donor-conceived child and their donor? What should children born through assisted reproduction be told about their origins? Does it matter if a parent is genetically unrelated to their child? How do experiences differ for men and women using collaborative reproduction in heterosexual or same-sex couples, single parent families or co-parenting arrangements? What impact does the wider cultural, socio-legal and regulatory context have? In this multidisciplinary book, an international team of academics and clinicians bring together new empirical research and social science, legal and bioethical perspectives to explore the key issue of relatedness in assisted reproduction.
- The first book to address the central issue of relatedness in assisted reproduction from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Covers topics on which there is presently little or no previous research, including gay father families, mitochondrial donation, and contact between sperm donor-conceived offspring and their sperm donors
- Presents cutting-edge research on the latest social, policy and technological developments in assisted reproduction
Reviews & endorsements
'There is a consistent clarity, directness and concision of writing style that makes this a very accessible and readable collection … a unique and invaluable source for those working or studying in this area - and from a wide range of disciplines.' David Archard, Queen's University Belfast
'A well-edited, comprehensive and very readable volume, this is essential reading for anyone interested in issues of identity, relatedness and kinship in donor-assisted reproduction.' Hugh Whittall, Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics
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July 2014Adobe eBook Reader
9781316056387
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Tabitha Freeman
- Part I. Conceptualising Relatedness:
- 1. A British history of collaborative reproduction and the rise of the genetic connection Martin Richards
- 2. Undoing kinship Jeanette Edwards
- 3. Genetically challenged: the determination of legal parenthood in assisted reproduction Julie McCandless and Sally Sheldon
- 4. On the moral importance of genetic ties in families John B. Appleby and Anja Karnein
- 5. Who cares where you come from? Cultivating virtues of indifference Hallvard Lillehammer
- 6. Legal kinship and connection in US donor families Naomi Cahn
- 7. Relatedness in clinical practice Andrea Mechanick Braverman and Lucy Frith
- Part II. Experiencing Relatedness:
- 8. Defining connections: gender and perceptions of relatedness in egg and sperm donation Rene Almeling
- 9. The significance of relatedness for surrogates and their families Vasanti Jadva and Susan Imrie
- 10. Frozen symbols of relatedness: Belgian patients and their decisions about unused cryopreserved embryos Veerle Provoost and Guido Pennings
- 11. Family relationships in gay father families with young children in Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom Marcin Smietana, Sarah Jennings, Cathy Herbrand and Susan Golombok
- 12. Stories of an absent 'father': single women negotiating relatedness through donor profiles Susanna Graham
- 13. Infertility, gamete donation and relatedness in British South Asian communities Nicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley
- 14. Families created by assisted reproduction: children's perspectives Lucy Blake, Sophie Zadeh, Helen Statham and Tabitha Freeman
- 15. Making connections: contact between sperm donor relations Tabitha Freeman, Kate Bourne, Vasanti Jadva and Venessa Smith
- 16. Relational lives, relational selves: assisted reproduction and the impact on grandparents Petra Nordqvist and Carol Smart.
