The human embryo in vitro : breaking the legal stalemate / Catriona A. W. McMillan, University of Edinburgh.
"Since then, the embryo in vitro, born from an assemblage of biological and technological matters, has generated complex ontological and moral questions for the law. As medical science marches forward, commonly held constructions of the embryo are becoming increasingly problematic. The physical...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Cambridge bioethics and law.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "Since then, the embryo in vitro, born from an assemblage of biological and technological matters, has generated complex ontological and moral questions for the law. As medical science marches forward, commonly held constructions of the embryo are becoming increasingly problematic. The physical contexts in which the embryo can exist are growing and changing, as are its possible teleologies.2 The politics of fertility have been extended to new heights3 with the harnessing, control and enhancement of reproductive genetic procedures in the biotechnology industry. 'The embryo' - and the legal, moral and social connotations surrounding it - is not the same 'embryo' it was over 30 years ago"-- |
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| Item Description: | Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Edinburgh, 2018) issued under title: Human embryo in vitro : a processual entity in legal stasis. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 225 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1108945929 9781108945929 |