Conceiving People

Conceiving People
Author: Daniel Groll
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-08-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190063076

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Each year, tens of thousands of children are conceived with donated gametes (sperm or eggs). By some estimates, there are over one million donor-conceived people in the United States and, of course, many more the world over. Some know they are donor-conceived. Some do not. Some know the identity of their donors. Others never will. Questions about what donor-conceived people should know about their genetic progenitors are hugely significant for literally millions of people, including donor-conceived people, their parents, and donors. But the practice of gamete donation also provides a vivid occasion for thinking about questions that matter to everyone. What is the value of knowing who your genetic progenitors are? How are our identities bound up with knowing where we come from? What obligations do parents have to their children? And what makes someone a parent in the first place? In Conceiving People: Identity, Genetics and Gamete Donation, Daniel Groll argues that people who plan to create a child with donated gametes should choose a donor whose identity will be made available to the resulting child. This is not, Groll argues, because having genetic knowledge is fundamentally important. Rather, it is because donor-conceived people are likely to develop a significant interest in having genetic knowledge and parents must help satisfy their children's significant interests. In other words, because a donor-conceived person is likely to care about having genetic knowledge, their parents should care too.

Family-making

Family-making
Author: Françoise Baylis
Publisher: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0199656061

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This volume explores the ethics of making or expanding families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. For many people, these methods are separate and distinct: they can choose either adoption or assisted reproduction. But for others, these options blend together. For example, in some jurisdictions, the path of assisted reproduction for same-sex couples is complicated by the need for the partner who is not genetically related to the resulting child to adopt this child if she wants to become the child's legal parent. The essays in this volume critically examine moral choices to pursue adoption, assisted reproduction, or both, and highlight the social norms that can distort decision-making. Among these norms are those that favour people having biologically related children ('bionormativity') or that privilege a traditional understanding of family as a heterosexual unit with one or more children where both parents are the genetic, biological, legal, and social parents of these children. As a whole, the book looks at how adoption and assisted reproduction are morally distinct from one another, but also emphasizes how the two are morally similar. Choosing one, the other, or both of these approaches to family-making can be complex in some respects, but ought to be simple in others, provided that one's main goal is to become a parent.

Conceiving Kinship

Conceiving Kinship
Author: Monica M. E. Bonaccorso
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2009
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781845451127

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Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was considered the 'Wild-West' of assisted conception. This compelling study provides a new perspective on hotly debated issues in kinship studies and the modern medical technologies; it offers fresh insights into longstanding questions of cultural continuities and discontinuities in European kinship.

Immunobiology of Gametes

Immunobiology of Gametes
Author: Edidin
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1977-03-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521214414

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Our Insect Friends and Enemies

Our Insect Friends and Enemies
Author: John Bernhard Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1909
Genre: Beneficial insects
ISBN:

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Behavior Genetics

Behavior Genetics
Author: John L. Fuller
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000394611

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Originally published in 1983, this volume is a collection of papers by research workers active at the time. It includes reviews of special areas within the field and discussions of interactions with other behavioral sciences such as psychology, ethology, and sociobiology. Applications to medicine, psychiatry, and education are also considered. Contributors were encouraged to integrate history, present knowledge, and projections for the future. Although the book is not divided into sections there is some grouping of related chapters.

Reports

Reports
Author: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Laboratory
Publisher:
Total Pages: 772
Release: 1911
Genre: Anatomy
ISBN:

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International Review of Cytology

International Review of Cytology
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 1990-11-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080586597

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families
Author: Judith Treas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2017-08-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 111940603X

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Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change. Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare state protection for families Includes many European, North American and Asian examples written by a team of experts from across five continents Features coverage of previously neglected groups, including immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays and lesbians Demonstrates how studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life across the globe Extensively reworked from the original Companion published over a decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, and the remainder has been comprehensively updated