In 'Sex Cells' Rene Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business.
Surrogacy, law and human rights
"This book addresses the pressing challenges presented by the proliferation of international surrogacy arrangements. The book is divided into three parts. Part One contains National Reports on domestic approaches to surrogacy from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, th…
"This book addresses the pressing challenges presented by the proliferation of international surrogacy arrangements. The book is divided into three parts. Part One contains National Reports on domestic approaches to surrogacy from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, th…
"A collection of essays, framed with original introductions, Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings helps students to think critically about reproduction as a social phenomenon. Divided into six rich and varied sections, this book offers students and instructors a …
"Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.com, the largest surrogacy support website in the United States. Surrogates' views emerge from the stories, debates, and discussions that unfold online. The Online World of Surrogacy documents t…
"Over the last 15 years or so, a new trade in assisted reproduction has grown across the world, offering people the opportunity to form families through cross-border exchanges of gametes, embryos, and gestational surrogates. This trade has been aided by the advent of affordable …
"Over the last 15 years or so, a new trade in assisted reproduction has grown across the world, offering people the opportunity to form families through cross-border exchanges of gametes, embryos, and gestational surrogates. This trade has been aided by the advent of affordable …
"Over the last 15 years or so, a new trade in assisted reproduction has grown across the world, offering people the opportunity to form families through cross-border exchanges of gametes, embryos, and gestational surrogates. This trade has been aided by the advent of affordable …
"Over the last 15 years or so, a new trade in assisted reproduction has grown across the world, offering people the opportunity to form families through cross-border exchanges of gametes, embryos, and gestational surrogates. This trade has been aided by the advent of affordable …
Notes on the authors -- Preface -- Rescue, refugees, orphans and rescue -- The politics of adoption from Romania to Russia and what we know about children languishing in residential care facilities -- Poverty, birth families, legal and social protections -- Guatemala : violence …
Intercountry adoption has undergone a radical decline since 2004 when it reached a peak of approximately 45,000 children adopted globally. Its practice had been linked to conflict, poverty, gender inequality, and claims of human trafficking, ultimately leading to the establishme…