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Emerging Reproductive Technologies: Regulating Into the Void
This chapter offers an overview of the American legal landscape surrounding assisted reproductive technologies (ART). The three basic sources of law...
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Basic Primer on Principles and Philosophy Applicable to Reproductive Bioethics
Various principles and frameworks are useful in guiding ethical shared decision making as well as policy development in reproductive medicine. These...
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Women, Children, Families and the Translation of Genomics in Reproductive Medicine
Advances in genomic science and technology have had a significant impact on the delivery of reproductive healthcare. At the same time, these...
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Reflections on autonomy in travel for cross border reproductive care
Travel for reproductive health care has become a widespread global phenomenon. Within the field, the decision to travel to seek third parties to...
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The Right and Unfair Aspects of Artificial Womb Technology
In this contribution, I will defend the view of AWT (artificial-womb technology) as free reproductive choice and argue that ectogenesis technology...
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The Use of Sex Selection Reproductive Technology in Traditional African Societies: An Ethical Evaluation and a Case for Its Adaptation
Advancement in assisted reproductive technologies now gives society access to procreation that was never thought to be possible. These technologies...
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Technology Assessment
Technology assessment (TA) refers to the systematic study of the effects introduction, extension, or modification of a technology might have on...
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Changing Fertility Landscapes: Exploring the Reproductive Routes and Choices of Fertility Patients from China for Assisted Reproduction in Russia
Global reproductive landscapes and with them cross-border routes are rapidly changing. This paper examines the reproductive routes and choices of...
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Experimental Philosophy of Technology
Experimental philosophy is a relatively recent discipline that employs experimental methods to investigate the intuitions, concepts, and assumptions...
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Project-based learning in bioethics education
Higher education has become more student-centered as the Bologna process assigns students more time to study and research. Online teaching has been...
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Autonomous decisions by couples in reproductive care
BackgroundPreconception Expanded Carrier Screening (ECS) is a genetic test offered to a general population or to couples who have no known risk of...
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Ethical Issues in Genetically Modified Foods: From Transgenesis to CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Technology
Traditional ethical quandaries related to GM foods have been addressed profusely throughout the years. Still, some concerns remain regarding...
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Infertility in Relation to Japanese Parental Norms
The characteristics of fertility treatment in post-World War II Japan can be summarized in four points. First, marriage and having children are...
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Technicization of “Birth” and “Mothering”: Bioethical Debates from Feminist Perspectives
Birthing is a natural phenomenon. However, in the era of modernisation, it has dramatically changed and transformed into a technological affair. Some...
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The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021: A Critique
In vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy have enabled many to achieve their dreams of parenthood. With a turnover of $500 million, reproductive...
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Map** out the Trajectory of Islamic Perspectives on Neuroethics
The advancements of medical technology incited multi-disciplinary discussions with regard to its ethical implications. Within the neuroscientific...
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Posthumous Gamete Collection and Use
This chapter summarizes and weighs ethical issues surrounding posthumous gamete or embryo use while proposing guidelines and suggestions for how...
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Structuralism, Vitalism, and Bioengineering
Genetic manipulation (bioengineering) is implicit to the current paradigm of modern biology. Concerns raised about the technology have focused...
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The problem with reproductive freedom. Procreation beyond procreators’ interests
Reproductive freedom plays a pivotal role in debates on the ethics of procreation. This moral principle protects people’s interests in procreative...
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Dignity
Dignity is a very prominent concept in human rightsHuman rights instruments, in particular constitutions. It is also a concept that has many critics,...