caa a22 4500 475841980 CHVBK 20180406123903.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1009446411083 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1009446411083 Murphy Thérèse School of Law, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK aut Gametes, Law and Modern Preoccupations [Elektronische Daten] [Thérèse Murphy] This article surveys a range of recent media storiesabout human gametes, pinning them to a series of widerpreoccupations within late modern life. Threepreoccupations are singled out: first, kinship andrelational identity; secondly, Nature andglobalisation; and finally, sexual difference andequality. Each one of these preoccupations has beencharacterised as iconic; debates about them are saidto crystallise who we are, especially ouruncertainties, and what we will be in the future. Byindexing these preoccupations to the stories abouthuman gametes, the article aims to upset both theincreasing attempts to present assisted reproductiontechnologies as 'sfamiliar' (as Nature's 'shelpinghand', for example) and the recurringassumptions about this technology's alleged'snovelty' and 'sanomaly'. The article concludesthat treating reproduction technologies, and theirregulation, as 'sfamiliar' risks complacency:equally, assumptions about their 'snovelty' narrowsthe search for effective explanatory tools andregulatory mechanisms. The upshot is that it might bebest for us to view reproductive technologies as bothless 'sfamiliar' and less 'snovel'. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 gametes nationallicence globalisation nationallicence identity nationallicence kinship nationallicence law nationallicence nature nationallicence sexual difference nationallicence Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2000-06-01), 155-169 1065-3058 8:2<155 2000 8 10728 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009446411083 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009446411083 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Murphy Thérèse School of Law, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2000-06-01), 155-169 1065-3058 8:2<155 2000 8 10728 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer