Baby Markets

Michele Bratcher Goodwin, B.A., J.D., LL.M., is the Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, where she holds joint appointments in the Medical School and the School of Public Health. In 2008, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. She has been a visiting scholar at Berkeley School of Law in the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She was a postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, conducting research on the antebellum politics of sex and law. Her op-ed commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Sun Times and Forbes Magazine.

Part I. What Makes a Market?: Efficiency, Accountability, and Reliability in Getting the Babies We Want: 1. Baby markets Michele Goodwin; 2. The upside of baby markets Martha Ertman; 3. Price and pretense in the baby market Kimberly Krawiec; 4. Bringing feminist fundamentalism to the US baby markets Mary Anne Case; 5. Producing kinship through the marketplaces of transnational adoption Sara Dorow; Part II. Space and Place: Reproducing and Reframing Social Norms of Race, Class, Gender and Otherness: 6. Adoption laws and practices: serving whose interests? Ruth Arlene-Howe; 7. International adoption: the human rights issues Elizabeth Bartholet; 8. Heterosexuality as a prenatal social problem: why parents and courts have a taste for heterosexuality Jose Gabilondo; 9. Transracial adoption of black children: an economic analysis Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Daniel Pollack; Part III. Spectrums and Discourses: Rights, Regulations, and Choice: 10. Reproducing dreams Naomi Cahn; 11. Why do parents have rights? The problem of kinship in liberal thought Maggie Gallagher; 12. Free markets, free choice? A market approach to reproductive rights Debora Spar; 13. Commerce and regulation in the assisted reproduction industry John Robertson; 14. Ethics within markets or a market for ethics: can disclosure of sperm donor identity be effectively mandated? June Carbone; Part IV. The Ethics of Baby and Embryo Markets: 15. Egg donation for research and reproduction: the compensation conundrum Nanette Elster; 16. Eggs, nests, and stem cells Lisa Ikemota; 17. Where stem cell research meets abortion politics: limits on buying and selling human oocytes Michelle Oberman; Part V. Tenuous Grounds and Baby Taboos: 18. Risky exchanges Viviana Zelizer; 19. Giving in to baby markets Sonia Suter.