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The Ethics of Human Reproduction and the Family

Individual and Collective Interests

  • Open Access
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The Ethics of Human Reproduction and the Family

Individual and Collective Interests

  • Open Access
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This open access book explores the interplay between individual and collective procreative interests against the background of cutting-edge developments in reproductive science.

Reproductive technologies have made possible a range of novel practices that challenge some of our most fundamental assumptions about parenthood and the family. Gametes have been collected from dying or deceased individuals to enable their spouses or parents to create children. Children have undergone invasive fertility preservation interventions at their parents' request. Mothers have donated their wombs to their daughters. Meanwhile, new scientific discoveries in epigenetics and microbiomics are reshaping our understanding of biological connections.

The Ethics of Human Reproduction and the Family brings together philosophers and social scientists to examine these challenges. Contributors explore, among others, the ethics of posthumous reproduction, uterus transplantation, intrafamilial adoption, conflicts between women's interests and state policies, and the implications of postgenomic science for genetic and social kinship.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Introduction, Daniela Cutas (Lund University, Sweden), Anna Smajdor and Kristien Hens (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
1. Individual and Familial Interests, Daniela Cutas (Lund University, Sweden) and Mats Johansson (Lund University, Sweden)
2. Does the Israeli Inclusive ART Policy Have Limits? Family Ideology and Challenges Posed by Same-Sex Couples Seeking Intrafamilial Assisted Reproduction, Sigal Gooldin (Israeli Institute for Gender and LGBTQ Studies, Israel) and Yael Hashiloni Dolev (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
3. The Price of Pregnancy: Was the First Uterus Transplantation Trial Involving Human Participants Ethical? Mats Johansson (Lund University, Sweden) and Daniela Cutas (Lund University, Sweden)
4. Maternal Norms and Maternal Donors in Living Donor Uterus Transplantation, Mianna Lotz (Macquarie University, Australia)
5. Behind a Wall of Prejudice: Intrafamilial Adoptions in Rural Romania, Diana Elena Neaga (Nicolae Titulescu University, Romania) and Valentin Quintus Nicolescu (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
6. State Procreative Interests and Postponed Motherhood, Anna Smajdor (University of Oslo, Norway)
7. Milk Kinship and Polymaternalism, Joke Struyf (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
8. Making Kin? Postgenomic Kinship, Reproductive and Family Ethics, Kristien Hens (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Oct 29 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 176
ISBN 9781350525160
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Series Reproductive Ethics: Critical Perspectives
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Daniela Cutas

Daniela Cutas is Associate Professor of Medical Et…

Anthology Editor

Kristien Hens

Kristien Hens is Research Professor in the Departm…

Anthology Editor

Anna Smajdor

Anna Smajdor is Professor of Philosophy at the Uni…

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