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Author: Sonia Allan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781138363496
ISBN 10: 1138363499
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 14 August 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Drawing on detailed legal evidence, highly readable personal case studies and a range of research, Sonia Allan has produced a compelling account of the need for donor conception to shed its stigma and secrecy by opening up its records to the thousands of donor offspring already born and yet to be born. Dr Marilyn Crawshaw, Honorary Fellow (formerly Senior Lecturer), University of York, UK Sonia Allan has written an important book that sensitively – and globally - approaches the secrecy surrounding donor conception. Based on a thorough discussion of the social, legal, ethical, and moral issues around donor anonymity, Donor Conception persuasively argues for the need to to give donor-conceived children the right to access information about their biological origins. Professor Naomi Cahn, Harold H. Greene Chair, GWU Law School
Drawing on detailed legal evidence, highly readable personal case studies and a range of research, Sonia Allan has produced a compelling account of the need for donor conception to shed its stigma and secrecy by opening up its records to the thousands of donor offspring already born and yet to be born. Dr Marilyn Crawshaw, Honorary Fellow (formerly Senior Lecturer), University of York, UK Sonia Allan has written an important book that sensitively - and globally - approaches the secrecy surrounding donor conception. Based on a thorough discussion of the social, legal, ethical, and moral issues around donor anonymity, Donor Conception persuasively argues for the need to to give donor-conceived children the right to access information about their biological origins. Professor Naomi Cahn, Harold H. Greene Chair, GWU Law School
Author Information
Sonia Allan is Associate Professor of health law at Macquarie University, and Head of Department of Health Systems and Populations. She has been a legal academic for over a decade, and has worked in both legal and health contexts. Sonia has published nationally and internationally. She was a Melbourne University Research Scholarship recipient for the duration of her PhD; a 2011 Churchill Fellow for her contribution to Australian society through her international and comparative research into donor conception; a 2011 ‘Global Health Law Fellow’ at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC; and received an AMP Tomorrow Fund Grant in 2014. Sonia has, throughout her career, also been active in community outreach and influential in law reform. She has participated in numerous Australian state and federal inquiries on assisted reproduction, as well as inquiries abroad. She has been cited extensively in resulting reports; instrumental in changing laws related to access to information by donor conceived people; and continues to be called upon to consult or comment on issues related to the development of the law.
