Involuntary childlessness: Lessons from interactionist and ecological approaches to disability

Because many involuntarily childless people have equal interests in benefitting from assisted reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization as a mode of treatment, we have normative reasons to ensure inclusive access to such interventions for as many of these people as is reasonable and poss...

全面介紹

Saved in:  
書目詳細資料
主要作者: I, Ji yeong (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
載入...
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: 2023
In: Bioethics
Year: 2023, 卷: 37, 發布: 5, Pages: 462-469
IxTheo Classification:NBE Anthropology
NCC Social ethics
NCH Medical ethics
Further subjects:B Reproduction
B Fertility
B Infertility
B in vitro fertilization
B Childlessness
B assisted reproductive technologies
在線閱讀: Volltext (kostenfrei)
Volltext (kostenfrei)
實物特徵
總結:Because many involuntarily childless people have equal interests in benefitting from assisted reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization as a mode of treatment, we have normative reasons to ensure inclusive access to such interventions for as many of these people as is reasonable and possible. However, the prevailing eligibility criterion for access to assisted reproductive technologies—'infertility'—is inadequate to serve the goal of inclusive access. This is because the prevailing frameworks of infertility, which include medical and social infertility, fail to precisely capture and unify the relevance of certain involuntarily childless experiences as warranting assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment. I argue that the least we can do for those who have an interest in accessing ARTs is to conceptualize involuntarily childless experiences in dialogue with interactionist and ecological models of disability, to outline a unified and more inclusive eligibility criterion.
ISSN:1467-8519
Contains:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13155