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Monday, October 19, 2020

Donor Conception Book Bibliography

Almeling, R.  (2011).  Sex Cells; The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm.  Berkeley, California:  University of California Press.

Baran, A. and Pannor, R.  (1993).  Lethal Secrets: The Psychology of Donor Insemination; Problems and Solutions.  New York:  Amistad Press, Inc.

Barratt, C., and Cooke, I.  (1993).  Donor Insemination.  Cambridge, UK:  Cambridge University Press.

Blyth, E., Crawshaw, M., Speirs, J., ed. (1998).  Truth and the Child 10 Years On:  Information Exchange in Donor Assisted Conception.  Birmingham, UK:  British Association of Social Workers.

Blyth, E., Landau, R., ed.  (2004).  Third Party Assisted Conception Across Cultures; Social, Legal and Ethical Perspectives.  London:  Jessica Kingley Publishers.

Cahn, N.  (2013).  The New Kinship; Constructing Donor-Conceived Families.  New York:  New York University Press.

Cooper, S., Glazer, E.  (1994).  Beyond Infertility; The New Paths to Parenthood.  New York:  Lexington Books.

Copeland, L.  (2020).  The Lost Family; How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are.  New York:  Abrams Press.

Creighton, P.  (1977).  Artificial Insemination by Donor; A Study of Ethics, Medicine, and Law in our Technological Society.  Toronto:  The Anglican Book Centre.

Daniels, K., and Haimes, E., ed.  (1998).  Donor Insemination; International Social Science Perspectives.  Cambridge, UK:  Cambridge University Press.

Davis, L.J.  (2009).  Go Ask Your Father; One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing.  New York, NY:  Bantam Books.

Dorfman, A.  (2017).  I've Got Dibs:  A Donor Sibling Story.  amydorfman@withanxpress.com.

Fox, D.  (2019).  Birth Rights and Wrongs; How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Frank, D. and Vogel, M.  (1988).  The Baby Makers.  New York:  Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.

Guichon, J.R., Mitchell, I., Giroux, M., ed.  (2012).  The Right to Know One's Origins; Assisted Human Reproduction and the Best Interests of Children.  Brussells:  ASP - Academic & Scientific Publishers.

Hertz, R. and Nelson, M.  (2019).  Random Families; Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Kramer, W.  (2018).  Your Family:  A Donor Kid's Story.  The Donor Sibling Registry.

Kramer, W., and Cahn, N.  (2013).  Finding Our Families; A First-of-Its-Kind Book for Donor-Conceived People and Their Families.  New York:  Avery.

Lorbach, C.  (2003)  Experiences of Donor Conception; Parents, Offspring and Donors through the Years.  London; Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd.

Mason, M. and Ekman, T.  (2017).  Babies of Technology; Assisted Reproduction and the Rights of the Child.  New Haven, Connecticut:  Yale University Press.

McWhinnie, A.  (2006).  Who Am I?; Experiences of Donor Conception.  Warwickshire, UK:  Idreos Education Trust.

Morrissette, M., Ed.  (2006).  Voices of Donor Conception.  Behind Closed Doors:  Moving Beyond Secrecy and Shame.  www.VoicesOfDonorConception.com.

Mroz, J.  (2017).  Scattered Seeds;  In Search of Family and Identity in the Sperm Donor Generation.  Berkeley, California:  Seal Press.

Noble, E.  (1987).  Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination; A Complete Resource Guide.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company.

Plotz, D.  (2005).  The Genius Factory; The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank.  New York:  Random House.

Robertson, J.  (1994).  Children of Choice; Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies.  Princeton, New Jersey:  Princeton University Press.

Shapiro, D.  (2019).  Inheritance; A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf.

Spencer, L.  (2007).  Sperm Donor Offspring; Identity and Other Experiences.  www.booksurge.com.

Stotland, N., ed.  (1990).  Psychiatric Aspects of Reproductive Technology.  Washington D.C.:  American Psychiatric Press, Inc.

Swanson, K.  (2014).  Banking on the Body; The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Harvard University Press.

Trueblood, K.  (1998).  The Sperm Donor's Daughter; and Other Tales of Modern Family.  Sag Harbor, New York:  The Permanent Press.

Vercollone, C., Moss, H., and Moss, R.  (1997).  Helping the Stork;  The Choices and Challenges of Donor Insemination.  New York:  Macmillan.

We Are Donor Conceived.  (2020).  Welcome to the Journey.  We Are Donor Conceived.


Saturday, September 5, 2020

Momentum and Possibilities

 Wow...the ball is rolling.  More and more people are advocating for DC/NPE/MPE people.  (Donor conception/not parent expected/misattributed parentage experience).  This is very exciting.  It has been such a Herculean effort to get people interested in what life is really like for people in these situations.

Some great websites:

* npecounseling.org

* donordeceived.org

https://www.facebook.com/RighToKnowUs/

Relevant podcasts:

* Everything's Relative

* Sex, Lies & the Truth

* Three Makes Baby

3rd Annual Michigan Psychological Association Health Psychology Symposium

* I will be presenting either a talk or a poster to explain the realities of donor conceived people and ethical issues of donor conceptions.

23andme is working on getting media attention in Michigan, in particular about my family DNA story.

Court cases  There are more people issuing court cases in their states, e.g. for fertility fraud.

The circumstances of donor conceived people have been intentionally kept in the dark for so long.  It is exhilarating to see all of the work people are doing to bring forward the realities of being donor conceived so that practices can become more ethical and take into consideration our needs and rights.




Saturday, April 18, 2020

Free Bioethics Course about Reproductive Technologies

Harvard is offering a free 10 week online class about the Ethics of Reproductive Technologies starting May 12, 2020. Free to audit or $99 for a Certificate. I'm glad to see that there is so much interest in this and people can learn more about it!

https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/bioethics-law-medicine-and-ethics-reproductive-technologies-and-genetics?delta=1&fbclid=IwAR2SVnI_0Xg8dIgDR0lMqanraFjihuDZC8rTLa7tbtvo-H4r2crOxqeifNs