Surrogate Motherhood: International Perspectives

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This book is a multi-disciplinary collection of essays from leading researchers and practitioners, exploring legal, ethical, social, psychological and practical aspects of surrogate motherhood in Britain and abroad. It highlights the common themes that characterise debates across countries as well as exploring the many differences in policies and practices. Surrogacy raises questions for medical and welfare practitioners and dilemmas for policy makers as well as ethical issues of concern to society as a whole. The international perspective adopted by this book offers an opportunity for questions of law, policy and practice to be shared and debated across countries. The book links contemporary views from research and practice with broader social issues and bio-ethical debates. The book will be of interest to an international audience of academics and their students (in law, social policy, reproductive medicine, psychology and sociology), practitioners (including doctors, counsellors, midwives and welfare professionals) as well as those involved in policy-making and implementation.


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Noting that a full understanding of the "problem" of surrogate motherhood cannot come "without some appreciation of the moral, social, and political contexts in which surrogacy takes shape" in different countries, Cook (health psychology, APU, Cambridge, UK), Sclater (psycho-social studies, U. of East London, UK), and Kaganas (law, Brunei U., Brunei) have gathered an interdisciplinary set of 18 papers that address from the perspectives of legal regulation, policy, and practice, on the one hand, and psychology and culture on the other. Particular approaches are diverse, with papers addressing such topics as clinical aspects, ethical issues, the concept of procreative tourism, psychological assessment of surrogate motherhood relationships, gamete donation and constructions of altruism, and market forces and assisted conception. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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