Overview

Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly with similar culinary tastes, music and pop culture, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. Discrimination written into French law acutely contrasts with non-discriminatory access to ART in Belgium. The contributors of this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States, representing different disciplines: law, political science, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.

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Author:   Jennifer Merchant ,  Irene Thery
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   43
ISBN:  

9781789204315

ISBN 10:   1789204313
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   04 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword: Recognizing Donor-Conceived Families: A Major Issue in Europe's Bioethics Debates Irene Thery Map. ART in Europe Introduction Jennifer Merchant PART I: VISIBLE BORDERS - LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY Chapter 1. ART and French Law: The Advantages and Inconveniences of the Therapeutic Model Laurence Brunet Chapter 2. ART and Surrogacy in Belgium: No Borders for Access - Few Borders for Kinship Jehanne Sosson PART II: INVISIBLE BORDERS, FRANCE, BELGIUM Chapter 3. Does the Embryo Make the Family? Access to Embryo Donation in France Severine Mathieu Chapter 4. Access to ART in France and Belgium: The Standpoint of Four ART Practitioners Jennifer Merchant Chapter 5. Removing Anonymity for Egg and Sperm Donors? (Re-)Igniting the Debate in Belgium Cathy Herbrand and Nicky Hudson PART III: SAME-SEX FAMILIES AND SURROGACY Chapter 6. When French Couples Become Parents Through Surrogacy in the United States: What Relationship with the Surrogate Jerome Courduries Chapter 7. Using ART or Surrogacy: Designating Third Parties in the Reproductive Process, and Representing Family Ties in Same-Sex Families Martine Gross Chapter 8. Queer Families Online: The Internet as a Resource for Accessing and Facilitating Surrogacy and ART in France and the United States Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer PART IV: CROSS-BORDER PRACTICES Chapter 9. Single Men and Women Barred From Using ART in France Dominique Mehl Chapter 10. Cross-Border Reproductive Care for French Patients in Belgium Guido Pennings Chapter 11. Is ART a National Issue ? Marie Gaille Conclusion Jennifer Merchant Index

Reviews

As this volume shows, social scientists continue to address the stiffness of some social norms and cultural symbols through teaching, publications, and public engagement. This book is certainly one more tool to soften, cross, transform, overlap, and queer mental barriers. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly This book provides detailed and broad insight into ART practices in France and Belgium and will make an invaluable contribution to the existing knowledge about ethical and social issues around ART. The interdisciplinary approach and perspectives from different disciplinary backgrounds make this book a rich collection of high-quality contributions. * Ruth Horn, University of Oxford

This provides detailed and broad insight into ART practices in France and Belgium and will make an invaluable contribution to the existing knowledge about ethical and social issues around ART. The interdisciplinary approach and perspectives from different disciplinary backgrounds make this manuscript a rich collection of high-quality contributions. Ruth Horn, University of Oxford

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Jennifer Merchant is a Professor of Anglo-American legal and political institutions at the Universite de Paris II (Pantheon-Assas). She is a leading researcher in bioethical issues of comparative public policy with expertise in North American and European policy, and the politics and regulation of medical technologies involving human reproduction.

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