TY - JOUR

T1 - Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth (book review)

AU - Wilkinson, Stephen

AU - Bolton, Zoe

PY - 2023/6/12

Y1 - 2023/6/12

N2 - Claire Horn’s book Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth takes as its starting point the idea that, in the near future, advances in artificial womb technology (AWT) will make it possible for babies to be grown outside the human body for the first time. Citing recent scientific developments, such as the work of researchers from the US, Australia and Japan who have developed biotechnologies that are able to sustain the life of extremely premature lamb fetuses in an artificial womb environment, Horn argues that the possibility of conception and gestation taking place wholly outside of the human body is ‘closer than ever before’. BOOK REVIEW

AB - Claire Horn’s book Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth takes as its starting point the idea that, in the near future, advances in artificial womb technology (AWT) will make it possible for babies to be grown outside the human body for the first time. Citing recent scientific developments, such as the work of researchers from the US, Australia and Japan who have developed biotechnologies that are able to sustain the life of extremely premature lamb fetuses in an artificial womb environment, Horn argues that the possibility of conception and gestation taking place wholly outside of the human body is ‘closer than ever before’. BOOK REVIEW

KW - ectogenesis

KW - Bioethics. Medical ethics -- Social aspects.

KW - medical law

KW - Reproductive Ethics

KW - reproductive health

M3 - Book/Film/Article review

JO - Bionews

JF - Bionews

IS - 1193

ER -