The Custom-Made Child? by Helen B Holmes

The Custom-Made Child? by Helen B Holmes

Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss them: the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not devise; the women who are the objects of policies made by men. So often the input of women is neither sought nor listened to. The privileged insights and perspectives that women bring to the consideration of technologies in human reproduction are the subject of these volumes, which constitute the revised and edited record of a Workshop on Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction Technology: Analysis by Women (EIRTAW), held in June, 1979, at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Some 80 members of the workshop, 90 percent of them women (from 24 states), represented diverse occupations and personal histories, different races and classes, varied political commitments. They included doctors, nurses, and scientists, lay midwives, consumer advocates, historians, and sociologists, lawyers, policy analysts, and ethicists. Each session, however, made plain that ethics is an everyday concern for women in general, as well as an academic profession for some.

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ISBN 13	9780896030251
ISBN 10	0896030253
Title	The Custom-Made Child?
Author	Helen B Holmes
Series	Contemporary Issues In Biomedicine Ethics And Society
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Humana Press Inc.
Year published	1981-04-30
Number of pages	368
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