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The Biotechnology Act in Norway, the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people's choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state. The author pursues this significant datum ethnographically and addresses the issues surrounding contemporary biopolitics in Norway. This involves investigating such fundamental questions as the relation between individual and society, meanings of kinship and relatedness, the moral status of the embryo and the role of science, religion, and ethics in state policies. Even though the book takes reproductive technologies as its focus, it reveals much about vital processes that are central to contemporary Norwegian society.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Ethical issues & debates

• Full title: Problems of Conception
• Author: Marit Melhuus
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 186
• EAN: 9780857455024
• ISBN: 0857455028
• ID: 01249585
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 172 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2012

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