Book Review: International Assisted Reproductive Technology
A book that aims to describe the legal challenges of transnational surrogacy arrangements misses some crucial points, writes Dr Zaina Mahmoud...
Dr Zaina Mahmoud
Law lecturer, University of Liverpool
Zaina Mahmoud is is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She completed a comparative socio-legal PhD on surrogacy regulation at the Wellcome Centre of Cultures and Environments of Health and the University of Exeter. Zaina is now a lecturer at the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. Zaina was a postdoctoral researcher on the Everyday Cyborgs 2.0: Laws Boundary Work and Alternative Legal Futures at the University of Birmingham.
BioNews Articles by Dr Zaina Mahmoud
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Book Review: Motherhood on Ice – The mating gap and why women freeze their eggs
Professor Marcia Inhorn's book dispels stereotypes by focusing on the experiences of 100 women who froze their eggs, writes Dr Zaina Mahmoud...
Book Review: Surrogacy in Latin America
'Surrogacy in Latin America' is a follow-up volume to the writers' 2019 book 'Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy', which looked at international regulation of surrogacy. Dr Zaina Mahmoud reviews it through the lens of the Law Commissions' proposals on surrogacy…
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
NHS Fertility Treatment: Wouldn't It Be NICE to Have a Workable Guideline?
Following its report 'The Power of Three IVF Cycles', PET held a wide-ranging discussion with seven experts, to discuss the funding and provision of fertility treatment and what is meant by a 'full' cycle of IVF...
Surrogacy Law: What Is Intended... For Parents? For Surrogates? For Children?
The publication of draft proposals for surrogacy law reform in England, Wales and Scotland prompted a panel discussion event from PET to explore the implications…
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Fertility-Friendly Workplaces? Attitudes to Assisted Conception and Employment
This PET event looked at the impact of infertility, and its treatment, on women in the workplace, and was chaired by Sarah Norcross with speakers including Nickie Aiken MP, Dr Zeynep Gurtin, Anya Sizer, Becky Kearns and Nathalie Sutherland...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Listening to children's voices in surrogacy law
Including children born via surrogacy in any reform of the law governing it, is essential, argue three researchers who developed a framework for engaging these individuals...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Are Some Fertility Patients More Equal Than Others?
The third session of the Progress Educational Trust's 2022 annual conference 'Making Fertility Treatment Fair Equality in Access, Equality in Outcome?' was 'Are Some Fertility Patients More Equal Than Others?'...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Theatre Review: Pennyroyal
Inspired by Edith Wharton's 1922 novella The Old Maid, Pennyroyal is a new play which was performed at the Finsborough Theatre, London in the summer. Zaina Mahmoud reviews this new 'timeless' play...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Theatre Review: The Fever Syndrome
It will never cease to amaze me how many fertility-related plays there are in London...
