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Medientyp:
E-Book
Titel:
Problems of Conception
:
Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship
Enthält:
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chapter 1 FRAMING THE ISSUES
Chapter 2 CHILDREN OF ONE’S OWN
Chapter 3 BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY: LEGISLATING ASSISTED CONCEPTION
Chapter 4 THE INVIOLABILITY OF MOTHERHOOD
Chapter 5 THE SORTING SOCIETY: KNOWLEDGE, SELECTION, ETHICS
Chapter 6 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS: LEGAL (UN)CERTAINTIES
Postscript SOME NOTES ON METHODOLOGY
Appendix FERTILITY RATES, TRENDS AND POLICIES IN NORWAY
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
Beschreibung:
The Biotechnology Act in Norway, one of the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people’s choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state. The author pursues this significant datum ethnographically and addresses the issues surrounding contemporary biopolitics in Norway. This involves investigating such fundamental questions as the relation between individual and society, meanings of kinship and relatedness, the moral status of the embryo and the role of science, religion and ethics in state policies. Even though the book takes reproductive technologies as its focus, it reveals much about vital processes that are central to contemporary Norwegian society