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ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: THE ISRAELI SCENE
Bioethics, 1993Israel is an interesting case for the study of the ways societies deal with the various tensions and clashes between modern advances in medical science and traditional values. O n the one hand, Israel despite its small size and limited resources is eager to play a role in the frontline of contemporary medical research, and is indeed doing so with a ...
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Artificial reproduction technologies (RTs) – all the way to the artificial womb?
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2006In this paper, I argue that the development of an artificial womb is already well on its way. By putting together pieces of information arising from new scientific advances in different areas, (neo-natal care, gynecology, embryology, the human genome project and computer science), I delineate a distinctive picture, which clearly suggests that the ...
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“Reality” Artificial Reproduction, and Sexuality
Leonardo, 2000Multimedia artist Jose Carlos Casado, with the assistance of writer Harkaitz Cano, discusses his work in progress, La Caja de Pandora (“Pandora's Box”), in which digital video, 3D animations, and interactivity merge in a series of installations about “reality” artificial reproduction, and sexuality.
Jose Carlos Casado, Harkaitz Cano
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Artificial Reproductive Technology (ART)
2012As this chapter is being written, Louise Brown celebrates her 30th birthday and had recently delivered a son, the first “second generation” offspring coming from this new technology. Louise Brown was the first child to be born by ART, that is to say, she was born after in vitro fertilization (Steptoe and Edwards 1978) even though Rock and Menkin were ...
Kurt Benirschke +2 more
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Artificial Insemination in Boar Reproduction
2013This chapter is focused on the main aspects related to utilizing artificial insemination (AI) in pig production. The importance of AI in pig farming is discussed, as well as the main techniques used in its application. The first section is devoted to a brief description of the historical development of AI and its application in the pig industry ...
Joan E. Rodríguez-Gil, Efrén Estrada
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Artificial Reproductive Technologies and the Advent of the Artificial Womb
2009The idea of an artificial womb and ectogenesis – a child brought to term outside a biological womb – has appeared in various thought experiments; [1–3] several movies have also shown some frightening scenarios based on this idea. And while some medical sources avoid discussion on this topic [4], other sources choose to address the advent of the ...
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Artificial Reproduction of Percid Fishes
2015Artificial reproduction, being a specific human intervention in the process of reproduction, is a key step in aquaculture of percid fishes. This group of fish, exhibits specific traits, considered amenable to artificial reproductive protocols. For example, this is the only extensively studied group of freshwater teleosts where application of human ...
D. Żarski +3 more
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Problems of Reproduction — Artificial Conception
1991Artificial insemination was introduced in the late 19th century. In 1978 the first child was born in England as the result of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer, and shortly thereafter the concept of surrogate motherhood was created.
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