Debating surrogacy / Anca Gheaus & Christine Straehle.
"People have always used surrogacy, i.e. the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. Traditionally, this involved surrogates being (willingly or not) impregnated by the intending father through sexual intercourse. New reproductive technologies...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Debating ethics.
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| Summary: | "People have always used surrogacy, i.e. the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. Traditionally, this involved surrogates being (willingly or not) impregnated by the intending father through sexual intercourse. New reproductive technologies have made possible a new form of surrogacy, which has, over the past four decades, become an increasingly widespread practice. Nowadays, surrogacy usually has at least some commercial aspect and involves women consenting to carry babies for other people, sometimes conceiving with their own gametes, but more often than not using gametes obtained from the people who plan to raise the child, or by third parties"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 235 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190072193 0190072199 9780190072209 0190072202 9780190072186 0190072180 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2024). |