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Beyond Baby M - Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)
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Beyond Baby M - Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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Arthur L. Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the subject
is assisted reproduction, that medical technology has out stripped
our morality. Yet, as the essays in this volume make clear, that is
not an accurate assessment of the situ ation. Medical technology
has not overwhelmed our moral ity. It would be more accurate to say
that our society has not yet achieved consensus about the complex
ethical iss ues that arise when medicine tries to assist those who
seek its services in order to reproduce. Nevertheless, there is no
shortage of ethical opinion about what we ought to do with respect
to the use of surrogate mothers, in vitro fertil ization, embryo
transfer, artificial insemination, or fertil ity drugs. Nor is it
entirely accurate to describe assisted repro duction as technology.
The term "technology" carries with it connotations of machines
buzzing and technicians scurrying about trying to control a vast
array of equip ment. Yet, most of the methods used to assist
reproduc tion that are discussed in this volume do not involve
exotic technologies or complicated hardware. It is technique, more
than technology, that dominates the field of assisted reproduction.
Efforts to help the infertile by means of the manipu lation of
human reproductive materials and organs date 1 2 Caplan back at
least to Biblical times. Human beings have en gaged in all manner
of sexual practices and manipulations in attempts to achieve
reproduction when nature has balked at allowing life to begin."
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