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  • Book
    Catherine Mills.
    Summary: Issues in reproductive ethics, such as the capacity of parents to choose children, present challenges to philosophical ideas of freedom, responsibility and harm. This book responds to these challenges by proposing a new framework for thinking about the ethics of reproduction that emphasizes the ways that social norms affect decisions about who is born. The book provides clear and thorough discussions of some of the dominant problems in reproductive ethics - human enhancement and the notion of the normal, reproductive liberty and procreative beneficence, the principle of harm and discrimination against disability - while also proposing new ways of addressing these. The author draws upon the work of Michel Foucault, especially his discussions of biopolitics and norms, and later work on ethics, alongside feminist theorists of embodiment to argue for a new bioethics that is responsive to social norms, human vulnerability and the relational context of freedom and responsibility. This is done through compelling discussions of new technologies and practices, including the debate on liberal eugenics and human enhancement, the deliberate selection of disabilities, PGD and obstetric ultrasound.
    Digital Access Springer 2011
  • Article
    Strecke J, Oettel M.
    Endocrinol Exp. 1977 Dec;11(4):277-84.
    Male and female rats aged 3 days were injected intragastrically with methyltestosterone and STS 383 synthetic androgen in doses between 0.4-3.2 mg and 0.2-3.2 mg, respectively. The treated females showed disturbances in hypothalamic differentiation as demonstrated by changes of the day of vaginal opening and frequency of oestrus, by a decrease of ovarian weight and a loss of fertility. It is thus possible to investigate perorally active aromatizable androgens for their central activities. STS 383, a new p. o. active androgen showed a higher activity compared with methyltestosterone in this study, whereas in the Hershberger model methyltestosterone was previously found to be 4 times more active than STS 383. A possible dissociation of central and peripheral activities between these two substances is discussed.
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