This research project (Kirkman, 1997), had as its focus women's autobiographical accounts
of infertility, My interest in the topic was at once personal and intellectual. Both strands …

While the concept of breastfeeding in contemporary Western culture is of a mother
breastfeeding her own baby or babies, others have replaced the mother as provider of …

From the beginning of the practice of surrogate pregnancy, ethical approaches to it have
included several dimensions. Central issues such as surrogates' genuine autonomy, the risk …

This article discusses the intersection of women's experiences with the assisted reproductive
technological practice of gestational surrogacy and spirituality and religion. During the …

Wet nursing and cross-nursing both involve the breastfeeding of a baby by someone who is
not the baby's mother. They differ in that wet nurses were usually employees in paid …

Because it is often argued that surrogacy should not be treated as contractual, the question
arises in which terms this practice might then be couched. In this article, I argue that a …

This paper explores the ways in which the notion of reproductive technology is represented
in the narratives of infertility told by a sample of Australian women. These narratives suggest …

This article explores the role of discourse and narrative in shaping the recent wave of
reforms to surrogacy law and policy around Australia. I examine two sites of dialogue …

'Wonder Bub'and'Alice in Wonderland'were the bold newspaper headlines when the
author's daughter was born in 1988, because she was conceived using her mother's egg …

The'bioethics' was invented in the 1970s to refer to a cluster of new and unprecedented
ethical or moral issues thrown up by the new forms of biotechnology, particularly in the fields …