title: Current medical, legal and demographic perspectives on artificial reproduction in Czechoslovakia.
abstract: This paper examines artificial reproduction (AR) within a broad comparative perspective and with specific reference to Czechoslovak law, medicine, and demography. It proceeds form an analysis of the social context that gives rise to technologies of AR to a review of the two principal technologies, artificial insemination (AI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF). A final section briefly discusses some of the implications of AR for new judicial conceptions of motherhood and fatherhood.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heitlinger
mesh_terms: D003604:Czechoslovakia; D003710:Demography; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006801:Humans; D007315:Insemination, Artificial; D038622:Internationality; D009035:Mothers / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D012945:Social Values; D013094:Spermatozoa; D013533:Gestational Carriers / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*