Keeping it in the family: Debating the ethics of uterine transplants and commercial surrogacy
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Keeping it in the family : Debating the ethics of uterine transplants and commercial surrogacy. / Kroløkke, Charlotte; Petersen, Michael Nebeling.
Bioethics Beyond Altruism: Donating and Transforming Human Biological Materials. red. / Rhonda M. Shaw. Springer, 2017. s. 189-213.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Keeping it in the family
T2 - Debating the ethics of uterine transplants and commercial surrogacy
AU - Kroløkke, Charlotte
AU - Petersen, Michael Nebeling
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In Danish and Swedish ethical and media debates, uterine transplants, in sharp contrast to commercial surrogacy, get positioned as a maternal gift-giving act. We argue that uterine transplants become (unlike commercial surrogacy arrangements) positioned in the private , intimate sphere of an individual known living donor (frequently the woman’s mother, a sibling, mother-in-law, or a friend) donating her viable but no longer individually needed uterus to help a known recipient (daughter, sister, daughter-in-law, or friend) experience pregnancy and birth. We propose the concept of bio-intimacy to help make sense of the ways that the uterus, upon separation from the older woman’s body, achieves discursive and material agency while it, in commercial surrogacy cases, is reframed as the exploitation of a less empowered, non-intimate other woman.
AB - In Danish and Swedish ethical and media debates, uterine transplants, in sharp contrast to commercial surrogacy, get positioned as a maternal gift-giving act. We argue that uterine transplants become (unlike commercial surrogacy arrangements) positioned in the private , intimate sphere of an individual known living donor (frequently the woman’s mother, a sibling, mother-in-law, or a friend) donating her viable but no longer individually needed uterus to help a known recipient (daughter, sister, daughter-in-law, or friend) experience pregnancy and birth. We propose the concept of bio-intimacy to help make sense of the ways that the uterus, upon separation from the older woman’s body, achieves discursive and material agency while it, in commercial surrogacy cases, is reframed as the exploitation of a less empowered, non-intimate other woman.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-55532-4_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-55532-4_8
M3 - Book chapter
SP - 189
EP - 213
BT - Bioethics Beyond Altruism
A2 - Shaw, Rhonda M.
PB - Springer
ER -
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