Reproductive Ethics: Critical Perspectives – serie
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Ethics of Human Reproduction and the Family
Individual and Collective Interests
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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This open access book is the first volume on the ethics of intra-familial reproduction, exploring cutting-edge debates and developments in reproductive science and their impact on how we conceptualize kinship.In recent decades, reproductive technologies have enabled novel uses of family members’ reproductive materials (such as gametes or wombs) or functions (such as pregnancy). Reproductive material has been collected from comatose or deceased people at the request of their spouses, and then used in reproduction. Invasive fertility preservation measures have been undertaken on children, at the request of their parents. Mothers have carried their adult offspring´s babies in their wombs in order to help them become parents. Such examples raise unprecedented ethical challenges. Whose interests ground the creation of offspring using a deceased person’s gametes? What is the relation between a mother and the grandchild that she gave birth to; between a deceased man and the children conceived with his sperm; or between the parents of a deceased woman and the baby that they created with her eggs? Contributors to The Ethics of Intra-familial Access to Reproductive Potential explore how these new forms of family connection will only grow in number and complexity as new technologies proliferate. Chapters contribute to ongoing debates on the moral status of children, the importance of genetic reproduction, and the clarification of claims to others’ reproductive capacities in the context of the family.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation.
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Ectogenesis, or artificial wombs, is not yet a reality. But is it the future? In this revolutionary book, Evie Kendal explores the potential that ectogenesis has to promote sexual equality in human reproduction, and the role science fiction plays in imagining possible futures where this technology is realised. Fictional representations of ectogenesis are typically used in bioethics to support techno-conservative views of reproduction, conflating the potential issues associated with this technology with other controversial practices, such as human cloning and genetic engineering. Arguing against this dominant trend from a liberal feminist perspective, and placing ectogestation within the rich history of debate in the area, this interdisciplinary volume examines the numerous benefits that growing a foetus in an artificial environment could bring in saving women from the sole burden of reproduction. Further considering the complex dynamic between ectogenesis and science fiction, Kendal not only applies bioethical reasoning to ectogenesis but to its representation in literature and film, and the subsequent use of such media in the bioethical discourse. As a result, she highlights several problems with the current methods of engagement with science fiction in bioethics. Proposing alternatives, Kendal argues that new methods should capitalise on science fiction’s ability to both communicate biotechnical change and explore how to infiltrate emerging technologies into society.With extended case studies, including Dawn by Octavia E. Butler, Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs brings together bioethics, philosophy, feminist thought, and literary theory to tackle urgent questions about how we think about and imagine this new way of creating human life.