caa a22 4500 475842022 CHVBK 20180406123903.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1009406729739 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1009406729739 Fox Marie University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK aut Pre-Persons, Commodities or Cyborgs: The Legal Construction and Representation of the Embryo [Elektronische Daten] [Marie Fox] This paper explores how embryos have been representedin law. It argues that two main models haveunderpinned legal discourse concerning the embryo. Onediscourse, which has become increasingly prevalent,views embryos as legal subjects or persons. Suchrepresentations are facilitated by technologicaldevelopments such as ultrasound imaging. In additionto influencing Parliamentary debate prior to thepassage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act1990, images of embryos as persons featureprominently in popular culture, including advertisingand films, and this discourse came to the fore in the'sorphaned embryo' debate in 1996. The main opposingdiscourse dismisses embryos as commodifiable objects,which fits with a trend towards legal recognition thatreproductive materials such as sperm may be classifiedas property which may be donated or sold. In thecase of cryo-preserved embryos these competingperspectives have resulted in litigation over thestatus of frozen embryos. In this paper I argue thatit might be productive to shift the debate from thispolarised dispute over whether embryos matter or not,whether they are pre-persons or commodities. Instead,I suggest that we should attempt to locate them in abiotechnological milieu, where cyborg metaphors may beutilised, and questions of how we should treat embryoswould be contextualised alongside our response toother cyborgs. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 cyborg nationallicence embryo nationallicence feminism nationallicence law nationallicence personhood nationallicence property nationallicence Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2000-06-01), 171-188 1065-3058 8:2<171 2000 8 10728 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009406729739 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009406729739 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fox Marie University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2000-06-01), 171-188 1065-3058 8:2<171 2000 8 10728 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer