The human embryo in vitro: breaking the legal stalemate

The Human Embryo in vitro explores the ways in which UK law engages with embryonic processes under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended), the intellectual basis of which has not been reconsidered for almost thirty years. McMillan argues that in regulating 'the embryo'...

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1. Verfasser: McMillan, Catriona A. W. ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge bioethics and law
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Zusammenfassung:The Human Embryo in vitro explores the ways in which UK law engages with embryonic processes under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended), the intellectual basis of which has not been reconsidered for almost thirty years. McMillan argues that in regulating 'the embryo' - that is, a processual liminal entity in itself - the law is regulating for uncertainty. This book offers a fuller understanding of how complex biological processes of development and growth can be better aligned with a legal framework that purports to pay respect to the embryo while also allowing its destruction. To do so it employs an anthropological concept, liminality, which is itself concerned with revealing the dynamics of process. The implications of this for contemporary regulation of artificial reproduction are fully explored, and recommendations are offered for international regimes on how they can better align biological reality with social policy and law
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Introduction -- The evolution of 'the embryo' in law : a matter of process? -- 'The embryo' in law today : the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and beyond -- From process to purgatory : moving beyond legal stasis -- Navigating legal purgatory : the otherness of embryos -- A liminal lens -- A context based approach -- Looking forward : the 14-day rule, in vitro gametogenesis, and ectogenesis -- Conclusion
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 225 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108933421
DOI:10.1017/9781108933421

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