John Harris is Professor of Bioethics and Applied Philosophy, and Director of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, at the University of Manchester. Søren Holm has a Chair in Bioethics at the Cardiff Institute for Society, Health and Ethics and is the director of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society

It is very hard to produce a timely book about a subject that changes as quickly as technologically assisted reproduction. But John Harris and Soren Holm have managed to do exactly that. The fourteen essays in this small volume provide an extremely useful and highly readable overview of the key moral, legal and social themes raised by the new ways of making babies.

• Introduction ; 1. Rights and Reproductive Choice ; 2. On the Concept of Pre-embryo: The Basis for a New 'Copernican Revolution' in the Current View about Human Reproduction ; 3. Eugenics: Some Lessons from the Nazi Experience ; 4. Reproductive Rights: Feminism or Patriarchy? ; 5. A Woman's Right to Choose? A Feminist Critique ; 6. Embedding the Embryo ; 7. The Price of Eggs: Who Should Bear the Costs of Fertility Treatments? ; 8. Sperm as Property ; 9. The Ethics of Consent to the Use of Ovarian Tissue from Aborted Fetuses and Dead Women ; 10. Ethical Issues in Pre-implantation Diagnosis ; 11. Reproductive Choice: A Muslim Perspective ; 12. To Everything there is a Season? Are There Medical Grounds for Refusing Fertility Treatment to Older Women? ; 13. The Post-menopause: Playground

John Harris is Professor of Bioethics and Applied Philosophy, and Director of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, at the University of Manchester. Søren Holm has a Chair in Bioethics at the Cardiff Institute for Society, Health and Ethics and is the director of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society

It is very hard to produce a timely book about a subject that changes as quickly as technologically assisted reproduction. But John Harris and Soren Holm have managed to do exactly that. The fourteen essays in this small volume provide an extremely useful and highly readable overview of the key moral, legal and social themes raised by the new ways of making babies.

• Introduction ; 1. Rights and Reproductive Choice ; 2. On the Concept of Pre-embryo: The Basis for a New 'Copernican Revolution' in the Current View about Human Reproduction ; 3. Eugenics: Some Lessons from the Nazi Experience ; 4. Reproductive Rights: Feminism or Patriarchy? ; 5. A Woman's Right to Choose? A Feminist Critique ; 6. Embedding the Embryo ; 7. The Price of Eggs: Who Should Bear the Costs of Fertility Treatments? ; 8. Sperm as Property ; 9. The Ethics of Consent to the Use of Ovarian Tissue from Aborted Fetuses and Dead Women ; 10. Ethical Issues in Pre-implantation Diagnosis ; 11. Reproductive Choice: A Muslim Perspective ; 12. To Everything there is a Season? Are There Medical Grounds for Refusing Fertility Treatment to Older Women? ; 13. The Post-menopause: Playground

John Harris is Professor of Bioethics and Applied Philosophy, and Director of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, at the University of Manchester. Søren Holm has a Chair in Bioethics at the Cardiff Institute for Society, Health and Ethics and is the director of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society

It is very hard to produce a timely book about a subject that changes as quickly as technologically assisted reproduction. But John Harris and Soren Holm have managed to do exactly that. The fourteen essays in this small volume provide an extremely useful and highly readable overview of the key moral, legal and social themes raised by the new ways of making babies.

• Introduction ; 1. Rights and Reproductive Choice ; 2. On the Concept of Pre-embryo: The Basis for a New 'Copernican Revolution' in the Current View about Human Reproduction ; 3. Eugenics: Some Lessons from the Nazi Experience ; 4. Reproductive Rights: Feminism or Patriarchy? ; 5. A Woman's Right to Choose? A Feminist Critique ; 6. Embedding the Embryo ; 7. The Price of Eggs: Who Should Bear the Costs of Fertility Treatments? ; 8. Sperm as Property ; 9. The Ethics of Consent to the Use of Ovarian Tissue from Aborted Fetuses and Dead Women ; 10. Ethical Issues in Pre-implantation Diagnosis ; 11. Reproductive Choice: A Muslim Perspective ; 12. To Everything there is a Season? Are There Medical Grounds for Refusing Fertility Treatment to Older Women? ; 13. The Post-menopause: Playground