Legal Conceptions: The Evolving Law and Policy of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

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Edition: 1
Release: 2009-12-03
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0801893887
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Written by a medical and a legal pioneer in the field, this book comprehensively reviews and analyzes the evolving law and policy issues surrounding assisted reproductive technologies. Dr. Howard W. Jones, Jr., founder of the first in vitro fertilization program in the United States, offers medical commentary, while attorney Susan L. Crockin, author of the column "Legally Speaking" in ASRM News (the newsletter of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine), provides legal analysis. The book opens with a legal primer and timelines sketching the medical and legal milestones in the history of reproductive technology and law. Each chapter provides a case-by-case discussion of the relevant law, as well as cogent medical and legal commentary and analysis on a particular substantive area. Chapter topics deal with a vast array of issues, including artificial insemination, sperm and egg donation, traditional and gestational surrogacy, posthumous reproduction, same-sex parentage, genetics, c Download Legal Conceptions for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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