Bioethics Beyond Altruism Donating and Transforming Human Biological Materials

5 Towards an Understanding of Embryo Donation ... 137 Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative So ...

138 S. Goedeke and K. Daniels Newton, C. R., McDermid, A., Tekpetey, F., & Tummon, I. S. (2003). Embryo donation: Attitudes ...

5 Towards an Understanding of Embryo Donation ... 139 Svendsen, M. N. (2007). Between reproductive and regenerative medicine: Pr ...

Introduction This chapter presents findings from a wider project exploring the chal- lenges for biological scientists of incorpo ...

142 R.P. Fitzgerald and M. Legge all the allowable services^1 for their clients. This was despite the occa- sional ‘four millise ...

6 Ethics for Embryologists 143 into and ‘examine’ the practices, conversations and material culture of the laboratory. Any oppor ...

144 R.P. Fitzgerald and M. Legge Stranded on the Shores of Reproductive Medicine On first arriving in one of the laboratories, w ...

6 Ethics for Embryologists 145 studies of what it meant to be an ‘IVF baby’ was published. This was a surprisingly long twenty-o ...

146 R.P. Fitzgerald and M. Legge operate within this framework. Since 2005 (the time period in which the research underpinning t ...

6 Ethics for Embryologists 147 Tricky Situations To begin, we consider those aspects of IVF technology that are most fre- quentl ...

148 R.P. Fitzgerald and M. Legge like who will be who? The sister will be the mother and the daughter and her stepfather are act ...

6 Ethics for Embryologists 149 technologies along with the high public prominence given to bioethics in its role of critical com ...

150 R.P. Fitzgerald and M. Legge I don’t think of myself as being somebody making some kind of superior decision you know we – a ...

6 Ethics for Embryologists 151 Another summed it up in the following manner: ‘We [as a professional group] are perfectionists at ...

152 R.P. Fitzgerald and M. Legge which part of the IVF procedure, based on their levels of competency and the difficulties of th ...

6 Ethics for Embryologists 153 somebody’s baby on the floor... All of a sudden one day I burst out crying when I was doing this ...

154 R.P. Fitzgerald and M. Legge and fertilised eggs according to laboratory protocols of potential viabil- ity. Perfection in f ...

6 Ethics for Embryologists 155 may be that every embryo shows some sign that is not good – that can be difficult. It was not onl ...

156 R.P. Fitzgerald and M. Legge In terms of disposal of reproductive material, form and hence devel- opmental potential mattere ...

6 Ethics for Embryologists 157 frequently betrayed their own ethical preferences, i.e. ‘...I mean, ide- ally, I’d prefer everyon ...