The Contractual Reallocation of Procreative Resources and Parental Rights
The Natural Endowment Critique
Published on 18. August 1995
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-1-85521-653-2 (ISBN)
Description
An examination of the implications for the law as it becomes entangled in the commercialization of new reproductive technologies. The rule of contract is proposed as a basis for the reorganization of human reproductive behaviour.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 160 mm
Width: 242 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85521-653-2 (9781855216532)
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Content
Part I Framing the discussion - the role of contract under hypothetical legal alternatives for ordering human reproduction: a definition of contract; the role of contract in two existing taxonomies of legal approaches to the new reproductive technologies; a unified field of analysis for the legal ordering of the new reproductive technologies; a taxonomy of alternatives in legally ordering the new reproductive technologies; summary - the diverse roles for contract in the legal ordering of the new reproductive technologies. Part II The role of contract in ordering reproduction under existing law and proposals for legal reform: the role of contract in the existing law of marriage; existing legal adaptations to the new reproductive technologies; the role of contract within the leading proposal for reform of the law of procreation; the role of contract in ordering procreation - the state of the legal question. Part III Normative evaluation of contract as a means of legal ordering for human reproduction: the basic societal choice posed by current developments in human reproduction; a normative evaluation of contract as a principle governing the basic human relationships implicated by the new reproductive technologies.