Description
Book Synopsis Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly with similar culinary tastes, music and pop culture, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. Discrimination written into French law acutely contrasts with non-discriminatory access to ART in Belgium. The contributors of this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States, representing different disciplines: law, political science, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.
Trade Review “As this volume shows, social scientists continue to address the stiffness of some social norms and cultural symbols through teaching, publications, and public engagement. This book is certainly one more tool to soften, cross, transform, overlap, and queer mental barriers.” • Medical Anthropology Quarterly
“This book provides detailed and broad insight into ART practices in France and Belgium and will make an invaluable contribution to the existing knowledge about ethical and social issues around ART. The interdisciplinary approach and perspectives from different disciplinary backgrounds make this book a rich collection of high-quality contributions.” • Ruth Horn, University of Oxford
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Foreword: Recognizing Donor-Conceived Families: A Major Issue in Europe’s Bioethics Debates
Irène Théry
Map. ART in Europe
Introduction
Jennifer Merchant
PART I: VISIBLE BORDERS – LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY
Chapter 1. ART and French Law: The Advantages and Inconveniences of the Therapeutic Model
Laurence Brunet
Chapter 2. ART and Surrogacy in Belgium: No Borders for Access – Few Borders for Kinship
Jehanne Sosson
PART II: INVISIBLE BORDERS, FRANCE, BELGIUM
Chapter 3. Does the Embryo Make the Family? Access to Embryo Donation in France
Séverine Mathieu
Chapter 4. Access to ART in France and Belgium: The Standpoint of Four ART Practitioners
Jennifer Merchant
Chapter 5. Removing Anonymity for Egg and Sperm Donors? (Re-)Igniting the Debate in Belgium
Cathy Herbrand and Nicky Hudson
PART III: SAME-SEX FAMILIES AND SURROGACY
Chapter 6. When French Couples Become Parents Through Surrogacy in the United States: What Relationship with the Surrogate
Jérôme Courduriès
Chapter 7. Using ART or Surrogacy: Designating Third Parties in the Reproductive Process, and Representing Family Ties in Same-Sex Families
Martine Gross
Chapter 8. Queer Families Online: The Internet as a Resource for Accessing and Facilitating Surrogacy and ART in France and the United States
Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer
PART IV: CROSS-BORDER PRACTICES
Chapter 9. Single Men and Women Barred From Using ART in France
Dominique Mehl
Chapter 10. Cross-Border Reproductive Care for French Patients in Belgium
Guido Pennings
Chapter 11. Is ART a “National Issue”?
Marie Gaille
Conclusion
Jennifer Merchant
Index
