This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy
and egg donation from three socially legally and culturally distinct countries - India Israel
and Germany. It presents contributions from experts in the field of social and cultural
sciences bioethics law as well as psychology and provides critical-reflective comparative
analysis of the socio-ethical factors shaping surrogacy and egg donation practices across these
three countries. This book highlights the importance of a comparative perspective to 'make
sense' of controversies and transitions in this highly contested area of artificial
reproductive technologies. It demonstrates how local developments cannot be isolated from
global events and vice versa. Therefore this volume can be used as a standard reference for
anyone seeking to understand surrogacy and egg donation from a macro-perspective in the next
decade.
