... pregnancy, and her parental rights in the child she would conceive and bear. All of these rights would be transferred by contract to the man who planned to raise the child, or to the man and his wife; in the typical surrogacy case, the man would also be the biological father. Unlike most...

... Susan Markens. Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Repro- duction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 272 pp. $65.00 cloth; $25.95 paper. Every year there are over 4 million births in the United States; around one thousand of them are the result of surrogacy arrangements...

.... Every year there are over 4 million births in the United States; around one thousand of them are the result of surrogacy arrangements, in which a woman agrees to carry a pregnancy to term. She may also provide the ovum, for a so-called traditional surrogacy, in which there is a genetic con...

... Susan Markens. Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Repro- duction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 272 pp. $65.00 cloth; $25.95 paper. Every year there are over 4 million births in the United States; around one thousand of them are the result of surrogacy arrangements...

...: University of California Press, 2007. 272 pp. $65.00 cloth; $25.95 paper. Every year there are over 4 million births in the United States; around one thousand of them are the result of surrogacy arrangements, in which a woman agrees to carry a pregnancy to term. She may also provide the ovum...

... their descriptions of third-party donations. The stories here are eloquent. The pathos of a young woman who bears a child for another couple etches the pain of “success” deeply into an otherwise tolerant, even positive, summary of surrogacy. Among sperm donors we meet “Ken,” a law student who blithely...

... is rarely attempted but here adds an important dimension to Sanger's brand of “abortion talk.” She rejects polling data and instead, in an effort to secure “insight into what men . . . have done,” explores “(1) disputes over the disposition of cryogenically frozen embryos; (2) commercial surrogacy contracts...

... the concern of those with disabilities, but a “women’s issue,” a pervasive social issue that affects all women on, a deeply personal level. Massachusetts Ofice of Handicapped Affairs Marsha Saxton Newly Received Birth Power: The Case for Surrogacy. By Camel Shalev. 201 pp. New Haven...

... Evans. Florence, KY: Von Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.424 pp. $51.95 cloth. Law and Ethics Birth Power: The Casefor Surrogacy. Carmel Shalev. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. 201 pp. $12.00 paper. Family Rights: Family Law and Medical Advance. Elaine Sutherland and Alexander McCall...

... that affects all women on, a deeply personal level. Massachusetts Ofice of Handicapped Affairs Marsha Saxton Newly Received Birth Power: The Case for Surrogacy. By Camel Shalev. 201 pp. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989. $19.95. The Care of Tomorrow’s Elderly. By Marion...

... the morality of IVF, surrogacy, medicalization of pregnancy, etc. However, these papers are less about pointing fingers than about focusing our attention on how any viewpoint from which nature becomes dominant and asserts an illusory sense of completeness and obviousness comes to exist. The answer...

... by another ten-page chapter titled “Family and Kinship in American Soci- ety,” beginning with antecedents in sixth-century Europe and ending with the new reproductive technologies and changing legal norms involving surrogacy cases. The final eight pages undertake an examination of vary- ing concepts...

... by another ten-page chapter titled “Family and Kinship in American Soci- ety,” beginning with antecedents in sixth-century Europe and ending with the new reproductive technologies and changing legal norms involving surrogacy cases. The final eight pages undertake an examination of vary- ing concepts...

... by another ten-page chapter titled “Family and Kinship in American Soci- ety,” beginning with antecedents in sixth-century Europe and ending with the new reproductive technologies and changing legal norms involving surrogacy cases. The final eight pages undertake an examination of vary- ing concepts...

...,” beginning with antecedents in sixth-century Europe and ending with the new reproductive technologies and changing legal norms involving surrogacy cases. The final eight pages undertake an examination of vary- ing concepts of heredity in Western society. One has to be absolutely impressed with the amount...

... by another ten-page chapter titled “Family and Kinship in American Soci- ety,” beginning with antecedents in sixth-century Europe and ending with the new reproductive technologies and changing legal norms involving surrogacy cases. The final eight pages undertake an examination of vary- ing concepts...

...,” beginning with antecedents in sixth-century Europe and ending with the new reproductive technologies and changing legal norms involving surrogacy cases. The final eight pages undertake an examination of vary- ing concepts of heredity in Western society. One has to be absolutely impressed with the amount...

... by another ten-page chapter titled “Family and Kinship in American Soci- ety,” beginning with antecedents in sixth-century Europe and ending with the new reproductive technologies and changing legal norms involving surrogacy cases. The final eight pages undertake an examination of vary- ing concepts...

... by another ten-page chapter titled “Family and Kinship in American Soci- ety,” beginning with antecedents in sixth-century Europe and ending with the new reproductive technologies and changing legal norms involving surrogacy cases. The final eight pages undertake an examination of vary- ing concepts...

... as legal problems of informed consent or surrogacy. Even nominally collegial bodies such as hospital ethics com- mittees and institutional review boards adopted more lawyerly modes of deliberation, presumably because of concern that less formal processes would fail...