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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Françoise Baylis (, Dalhousie University) , Carolyn McLeod (, University of Western Ontario)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.646kg ISBN: 9780199656066ISBN 10: 0199656061 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 03 July 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsFrançoise Baylis and Carolyn McLeod: IntroductionFamilies: Of Parents and Children 151: Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift: The Goods of Parenting2: Samantha Brennan: The Goods of Childhood and Children's RightsBionormativity: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives3: Charlotte Witt: A Critique of the Bionormative Concept of the Family4: Lucy Blake, Martin Richards, and Susan Golombok: The Families of Assisted Reproduction and AdoptionBecoming a Parent: Personal Choices5: Christine Overall: What is the Value of Procreation?6: Tina Rulli: The Unique Value of AdoptionBecoming a Parent: State Interests7: Jurgen De Wispelaere and Daniel Weinstock: State Regulation and Assisted Reproduction: Balancing the Interests of Parents and Children8: Carolyn McLeod and Andrew Botterell: 'Not for the Faint of Heart': Assessing the Status Quo on Adoption and Parental Licensing9: Julie Crawford: On Non-Biological Maternity, or 'My Daughter is Going to be a Father!'Special Responsibilities of Parents10: James Lindemann Nelson: Special Responsibilities of Parents Using Technologically Assisted Reproduction11: Mianna Lotz: Adoptee Vulnerability and Post-Adoptive Parental Obligation12: Heath Fogg Davis: The Political Geography of Whites Adopting Black Children in the United StatesContested Practices13: Kimberly Leighton: Geneticizing the Desire to Know: Analogies to Adoption in Arguments Against Anonymous Gamete Donation14: Françoise Baylis: Transnational Commercial Contract Pregnancy in India15: Jennifer A. Parks: Aged Parenting Through ART and Other MeansReviewsThe editors of this volume have put together something unique here, and certainly essential reading for anyone interested as a parent, prospective parent, philosopher, policy maker, or legislator (or any combination thereof ) in questions about the ethics of building families through adoption and/or ART [assisted reproductive technology]. In some sense, the book raises more questions than it answers-multiple additional dimensions of consideration now round out the various questions about adoption, reproductive technologies, and state policies perplex so many of us both personally and professionally. But perhaps, very much to its credit, ethics is the only field in which we can say of a book that this is what makes it great. -- International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Author InformationFrançoise Baylis is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University, and founder of the NovelTechEthics research team. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Assisted human reproduction, research involving women, public health ethics, relational identity are but a few of the topics on which she works. In addition to her academic research, she contributes to national policy via government research contracts, membership on national committees and public education. This work—all of which is informed by a strong commitment to the common good—focuses largely on issues of justice and community.Carolyn McLeod is Associate Professor of Philosophy, an Affiliate Member of Women's Studies and Feminist Research, and a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. Most of her research deals with moral dilemmas that occur in reproductive health care and with the moral concepts needed to resolve these dilemmas. She has tackled moral dilemmas having to do, for example, with miscarriage, infertility, contract pregnancy, fertility preservation, and conscientious refusals by health care professionals to provide standard services such as abortions. She has also written about—among other concepts—autonomy, trust, integrity, objectification, and conscience.Contributors: Françoise Baylis, Dalhousie University Lucy Blake, University of Cambridge Andrew Botterell, Western University in London, CanadaSamantha Brennan, Western University, CanadaHarry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin, MadisonJulie Crawford, Columbia UniversityJurgen de Wispelaere, McGill UniversityHeath Fogg Davis, Temple University Susan Golombok, University of CambridgeKimberly Leighton, American UniversityMianna Lotz, Macquarie University, AustraliaCarolyn McLeod, Western University in London, CanadaJames Lindemann Nelson, Michigan State UniversityChristine Overall, Queen's University, KingstonJennifer Parks, Loyola University of ChicagoMartin Richards, University of Cambridge Tina Rulli, Purdue University, IndianaAdam Swift, University of WarwickDaniel Weinstock, McGill UniversityCharlotte Witt, University of New Hampshire Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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