The Human Embryo In Vitro

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'Offering a strikingly fresh perspective on the regulation of human embryos, this valuable new book argues persuasively that the law's attempt to ascribe a single fixed status to 'the embryo' is destined to fail, and that we should acknowledge instead the fluid, context-specific and essentially liminal nature of human embryos in vitro.' Emily Jackson, Professor of Law, The London School of Economics and Political Science 'Using two innovative lenses - liminality and the gothic - in this book McMillan addresses the place and construction of 'the embryo' in law. Her penetrating socio-legal analysis draws on the science and technology studies and anthropological literatures to persuasively argue that there is no singular 'embryo' in law, but instead multiple (unacknowledged) ones. Her incisive analysis emphasises the significance of thresholds, boundaries, and processes for understanding law and legal gaps regarding these. She insists that it is 'time to break the legal stalemate surrounding embryos in vitro'. The book is a call to arms - for both regulators and legal scholars - to take context and process seriously. Readers will be left in no doubt that this is a call we should all heed.' Muireann Quigley, Professor of Law, Medicine, and Technology, Birmingham Law School