Cambridge Bioethics and Law #: The Human Embryo In Vitro

Breaking the Legal Stalemate

Cambridge Bioethics and Law #: The Human Embryo In Vitro
Catriona A W McMillan
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9781108844109
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The Human Embryo in vitro explores the ways in which UK law engages with embryonic processes under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended), the intellectual basis of which has not been reconsidered for almost thirty years. McMillan argues that in regulating ' the embryo' - that is, a processual liminal entity in itself - the law is regulating for uncertainty. This book offers a fuller understanding of how complex biological processes of development and growth can be better aligned with a legal framework that purports to pay respect to the embryo while also allowing its destruction. To do so it employs an anthropological concept, liminality, which is itself concerned with revealing the dynamics of process. The implications of this for contemporary regulation of artificial reproduction are fully explored, and recommendations are offered for international regimes on how they can better align biological reality with social policy and law.

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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
Catriona A. W. McMillan is a Senior Research Fellow in Medical Law and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the intersection of health law, ethics, and society, particularly the regulation of reproduction, and advances in health technologies.
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ISBN-13: 9781108844109
Published: 1 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224

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