Defining the Family: Law, Technology, and Reproduction in An Uneasy Age

Author:   Janet L. Dolgin
Publisher:   New York University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9780814719176


Pages:   287
Publication Date:   01 August 1999
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Janet L. Dolgin
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780814719176


ISBN 10:   0814719171
Pages:   287
Publication Date:   01 August 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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"""Janet Dolgin provides an overview of clashing conceptions of family as revealed in the struggle of courts to deal with the impact of various forms of reproductive technology."" - --Hypathia ""The best book for lawyers to read on the problems of assisted reproduction."" --Jurimetrics ""Carefully researched ... In Professor Dolgin's view, the family carried forward the feudal structure of hierarchy, mutual loyalty and lack of individual autonomy into the modern era until, like other institutions, it came under stress from the overriding reality of modern life: marketplace economics."" --New York Law Journal ""Dolgin argues that [surrogacy and reproductive technologies] have only accelerated a clash in visions of the family that have uneasily coexisted for more than a century."" --Choice"


The best book for lawyers to read on the problems of assisted reproduction. -Jurimetrics Carefully researched ... In Professor Dolgin's view, the family carried forward the feudal structure of hierarchy, mutual loyalty and lack of individual autonomy into the modern era until, like other institutions, it came under stress from the overriding reality of modern life: marketplace economics. -New York Law Journal Janet Dolgin provides an overview of clashing conceptions of family as revealed in the struggle of courts to deal with the impact of various forms of reproductive technology. -Hypathia Dolgin argues that [surrogacy and reproductive technologies] have only accelerated a clash in visions of the family that have uneasily coexisted for more than a century. -Choice


Janet Dolgin provides an overview of clashing conceptions of family as revealed in the struggle of courts to deal with the impact of various forms of reproductive technology. - Hypathia


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Janet L. Dolgin is the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at Hofstra University School of Law in New York.

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