The Healthy Embryo

Jeff Nisker is Professor of Obstetrics-Gynecology and Oncology, and Coordinator of Health Ethics and Humanities at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Francoise Baylis is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Isabel Karpin is Professor of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Carolyn Wendy McLeod is Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Roxanne Mykitiuk is Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributor bioprofiles; Part I. Human Embryos: 1. What are human embryos and how do we know? Jane Maienschein and Jason Scott Robert; 2. Human embryos: donors' and non-donors' perspectives on embryo moral status Jackie Leach Scully, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter and Rouven Porz; 3. Property, privacy, and other legal constructions of human embryos Radhika Rao; 4. Informed consent for the age of pluripotency and embryo triage: from alienation, anonymity, and altruism to connection, contact, and care Charis Thompson; Part II. Almost Human Embryos: 5. Interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer Jose Cibelli and Kai Wang; 6. Parthenogenesis and other strategies to create human embryos for stem cell research and regenerative medicine Paul De Sousa; 7. Creating humanesque embryos Francoise Baylis; Part III. 'Healthy' Human Embryos: 8. A visual dialogue on 'healthy' human embryos from the 16th to 21st centuries Lianne McTavish; 9. Social determinants of 'health' of embryos Roxanne Mykitiuk and Jeff Nisker; 10. Preconceived human embryos and taking care of their 'health' Isabel Karpin; 11. Public understandings of a 'healthy' embryo: a citizen deliberation on preimplantation genetic diagnosis Susan M. Cox and Jeff Nisker; Part IV. 'Healthy' Human Embryos and Research: 12. Donating fresh versus frozen embryos to stem cell research: in whose interests? Carolyn McLeod and Francoise Baylis; 13. Informed choice in embryo donation for research purposes Angela White and Robyn Bluhm; Part V. 'Healthy' Human Embryos and Reproduction: 14. Making embryos healthy or making healthy embryos: how much of a difference between prenatal treatment and selection? David Wasserman and Adrienne Asch; 15. The ethics of preventing disease by preventing people Daniel M. Weinstock; 16. 'Healthy' human embryos and symbolic harm Elisabeth Gedge; 17. Saviour siblings, disease avoidance and embryo health Sally Sheldon and Stephen Wilkinson; Index.