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| Abbreviations | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The legal framework of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act | |
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| Resources, to fight and to enforce | |
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| The power of the media | |
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| Politics | |
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| Ethics | |
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| The ongoing need for regulation | |
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| Reproductive Technologies and the Birth of the HFEA | |
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| Natural reproduction: what is 'supposed' to happen, and why does it go wrong? | |
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| The process | |
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| When problems arise | |
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| Artificial insemination (AI) | |
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| In vitro fertilization (IVF) | |
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| Surplus embryos | |
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| Risks of IVF | |
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| Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) | |
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| Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) | |
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| Out of the freezer... | |
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| Cloning | |
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| Therapeutic cloning and stem cell research | |
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| Ethics, Embryos, and Infertility | |
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| Relief of infertility as a worthy goal | |
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| Ethics, law, and regulation | |
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| Respect for autonomy | |
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| Autonomy and safety | |
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| Autonomy and the public good | |
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| Autonomy and consent | |
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| Autonomy and privacy | |
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| Parental autonomy and harm to children | |
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| Health risks to children | |
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| Family setup and the welfare of the child | |
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| The non-identity problem | |
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| Saviour Siblings, Designer Babies, and Sex Selection | |
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| Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) | |
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| Positive selection | |
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| Screening for carriers | |
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| Sex selection | |
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| Saviour siblings | |
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| Fertility is a Feminist Issue | |
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| Equal interests in reproduction? | |
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| Egg freezing | |
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| The older mother | |
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| Risks associated with fertility treatment | |
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| Women's autonomy and fertility treatment | |
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| Future developments | |
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| Artificial gametes | |
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| Artificial wombs | |
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| Private Lives and Public Policy-The Story of Diane Blood | |
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| Consent | |
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| Does it matter what happens when we are irretrievably unconscious or dead? | |
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| Informed consent | |
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| Dignity | |
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| Is there a doctrine of 'best interests'? | |
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| Clinical and other interests | |
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| The spouse's testimony | |
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| Some further implications | |
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| Moral responsibility and the media | |
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| Human Rights and Reproduction | |
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| Prisoners and the right to reproduce | |
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| The rights in question | |
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| The extreme view: the right to reproductive choice | |
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| The right to privacy and family life: does it entail a right to reproduce? | |
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| Positive and negative rights | |
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| Rights and duties | |
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| The right to marry | |
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| Rights and regulation | |
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| The individual and society | |
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| A perverse incentive? | |
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| The downside of rights and European law | |
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| Rights and the precautionary principle | |
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| Homogeneity and national integrity | |
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| Deconstructing The Family | |
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| Donated gametes | |
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| Different views on anonymity | |
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| Babies with two mothers? | |
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| Surrogacy | |
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| Single parents: no need for a father...or a mother? | |
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| Non-discrimination | |
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| The role of empirical data | |
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| Same sex parents | |
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| Changing values | |
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| Embryonic Stem Cells and Therapeutic Cloning | |
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| What are embryonic stem cells? | |
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| Foetal stem cells | |
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| Adult stem cells | |
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| Ethical concerns | |
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| Loss of potential | |
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| 'Personhood' and special attributes | |
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| Social harms | |
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| Obtaining eggs | |
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| Do the benefits outweigh the harm? | |
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| Global concerns | |
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| Broadening the scope | |
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| Legal challenges | |
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| Other ways of obtaining stem cells | |
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| Single cell biopsy | |
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| Dead embryos | |
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| Parthenogenesis | |
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| The role of the HFEA | |
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| National differences in legislation/regulation | |
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| Germany | |
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| Italy | |
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| The USA | |
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| How do the various approaches compare? | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |