Teresa Baron
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teresa Baron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teresa |
| FAMILY NAME | Baron |
| SIGNATURE | BARON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9930-209X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Pregnancy, pain and pathology
In their recent paper ‘Is pregnancy a disease?’, Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen argue in the affirmative, highlighting features shared by both pregnancy and paradigmatic diseases. In particular, they point to the harmful symptoms and side effects of pregnancy, and the provision of medical treatment to both pregnant patients and those aiming to avoid pregnancy. They consider both subjectivist and objectivist approaches taken by philosophers of hea…
Acknowledging the dual-interest gestationalist approach
Lange argues that the gestationalist approach to moral parenthood fails due to its implausible reliance on a 'valuable intimate personal relationship between newborn and gestational procreator' at birth.However, his dismissal of the moral significance of the maternal-foetal connection depends largely upon inappropriate analogies to other forms of relationship.Further, Lange targets a very specific framing of the gestationalist view, overlooking t…
Parenting and the Goods of Childhood
In this important new contribution to the philosophy of parenthood and childhood, Luara Ferracioli sets out with an ambitious set of interconnected aims: to explain what it is that makes a good childhood and what it is that parents are therefore obliged to protect and nurture; to explain who counts as a moral parent and is therefore permitted to take on this weighty task; to outline the obligation of the liberal state vis-à-vis opportunities to p…
Surrogacy and the Fiction of Medical Necessity
A number of countries and states prohibit surrogacy except in cases of “medical necessity” or for those with specific medical conditions. Healthcare providers in some countries have similar policies restricting the provision of clinical assistance in surrogacy. This paper argues that surrogacy is never medically necessary in any ordinary understanding of this term. The author aims to show first that surrogacy per se is a socio-legal intervention …
Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients
Some National Health Service healthcare boards in the UK will approve a request for female sterilisation only if the patient first accepts a trial period of 1 year with an intrauterine device (IUD), a form of long-acting reversible contraception. In this article, I argue that this requirement is not justified by appeal to any of (or any combination of) promotion of informed consent, paternalistic concerns regarding patient regret in later life an…
Double‐donor surrogacy and the intention to parent
Assisted reproduction often involves biological contributions by third parties such as egg/sperm donors, mitochondrial DNA donors, and surrogate mothers. However, these arrangements are also characterised by a biological relationship between the child and at least one intending parent. For example, one or both intending parents might use their own eggs/sperm in surrogacy, or an intending mother might conceive using donor sperm or gestate a donor …
The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes
Disputes over frozen embryos represent a particularly problematic case, legally and ethically, due to the ambiguity of their moral and legal status and the potential rights-claims which can be made with regard to them. Recent work has contextualised frozen embryos as liminal and suggested a contextual approach to their legal classification. By appeal to personal property law, with a lens provided by Roman law doctrines, and reproductive bioethics…
Two dilemmas for medical ethics in the treatment of gender dysphoria in youth
Both the diagnosis and medical treatment of gender dysphoria (GD)—particularly in children and adolescents—have been the subject of significant controversy in recent years. In this paper, we outline the means by which GD is diagnosed in children and adolescents, the currently available treatment options, and the bioethical issues these currently raise. In particular, we argue that the families and healthcare providers of children presenting with …
Defending two dilemmas
Ashley’s response to our recent paper argues that a fuller appreciation of the available clinical data, of the rights of children to autonomy, and of the primary purpose of gender-affirming endocrine treatment supports the rejection of both the pathway and consent dilemmas for the treatment of gender dysphoria, as raised in this journal. In this response, we highlight certain misrepresentations of our argument, and defend our conclusions against …
Moving forwards
Most existing literature on the ethics of full ectogenesis has proceeded under the presupposition that science will at some point produce sophisticated technologies for full‐term gestation (from embryo to infant) outside the human womb, delivering neonate health outcomes comparable with (or even superior to) biological gestation. However, the development of this technology—as opposed to the support systems currently being advanced—would require h…
A lost cause? Fundamental problems for causal theories of parenthood
In this paper, I offer a critique of (actual and possible) causal theories of parenthood. I do not offer a competing account of who incurs parental obligations and why; rather, I aim to show that there are fundamental problems for any account of who acquires parental obligations and why by appeal to causal responsibility for a child’s existence. I outline and justify three criteria that any plausible causal account of parental obligation must mee…
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A lost cause? Fundamental problems for causal theories of parenthood
In this paper, I offer a critique of (actual and possible) causal theories of parenthood. I do not offer a competing account of who incurs parental obligations and why; rather, I aim to show that there are fundamental problems for any account of who acquires parental obligations and why by appeal to causal responsibility for a child’s existence. I outline and justify three criteria that any plausible causal account of parental obligation must mee…
Moving forwards
Most existing literature on the ethics of full ectogenesis has proceeded under the presupposition that science will at some point produce sophisticated technologies for full‐term gestation (from embryo to infant) outside the human womb, delivering neonate health outcomes comparable with (or even superior to) biological gestation. However, the development of this technology—as opposed to the support systems currently being advanced—would require h…
Two dilemmas for medical ethics in the treatment of gender dysphoria in youth
Both the diagnosis and medical treatment of gender dysphoria (GD)—particularly in children and adolescents—have been the subject of significant controversy in recent years. In this paper, we outline the means by which GD is diagnosed in children and adolescents, the currently available treatment options, and the bioethical issues these currently raise. In particular, we argue that the families and healthcare providers of children presenting with …
Defending two dilemmas
Ashley’s response to our recent paper argues that a fuller appreciation of the available clinical data, of the rights of children to autonomy, and of the primary purpose of gender-affirming endocrine treatment supports the rejection of both the pathway and consent dilemmas for the treatment of gender dysphoria, as raised in this journal. In this response, we highlight certain misrepresentations of our argument, and defend our conclusions against …
Surrogacy and the Fiction of Medical Necessity
A number of countries and states prohibit surrogacy except in cases of “medical necessity” or for those with specific medical conditions. Healthcare providers in some countries have similar policies restricting the provision of clinical assistance in surrogacy. This paper argues that surrogacy is never medically necessary in any ordinary understanding of this term. The author aims to show first that surrogacy per se is a socio-legal intervention …
Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients
Some National Health Service healthcare boards in the UK will approve a request for female sterilisation only if the patient first accepts a trial period of 1 year with an intrauterine device (IUD), a form of long-acting reversible contraception. In this article, I argue that this requirement is not justified by appeal to any of (or any combination of) promotion of informed consent, paternalistic concerns regarding patient regret in later life an…
Double‐donor surrogacy and the intention to parent
Assisted reproduction often involves biological contributions by third parties such as egg/sperm donors, mitochondrial DNA donors, and surrogate mothers. However, these arrangements are also characterised by a biological relationship between the child and at least one intending parent. For example, one or both intending parents might use their own eggs/sperm in surrogacy, or an intending mother might conceive using donor sperm or gestate a donor …
The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes
Disputes over frozen embryos represent a particularly problematic case, legally and ethically, due to the ambiguity of their moral and legal status and the potential rights-claims which can be made with regard to them. Recent work has contextualised frozen embryos as liminal and suggested a contextual approach to their legal classification. By appeal to personal property law, with a lens provided by Roman law doctrines, and reproductive bioethics…
Pregnancy, pain and pathology
In their recent paper ‘Is pregnancy a disease?’, Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen argue in the affirmative, highlighting features shared by both pregnancy and paradigmatic diseases. In particular, they point to the harmful symptoms and side effects of pregnancy, and the provision of medical treatment to both pregnant patients and those aiming to avoid pregnancy. They consider both subjectivist and objectivist approaches taken by philosophers of hea…
Acknowledging the dual-interest gestationalist approach
Lange argues that the gestationalist approach to moral parenthood fails due to its implausible reliance on a 'valuable intimate personal relationship between newborn and gestational procreator' at birth.However, his dismissal of the moral significance of the maternal-foetal connection depends largely upon inappropriate analogies to other forms of relationship.Further, Lange targets a very specific framing of the gestationalist view, overlooking t…
Parenting and the Goods of Childhood
In this important new contribution to the philosophy of parenthood and childhood, Luara Ferracioli sets out with an ambitious set of interconnected aims: to explain what it is that makes a good childhood and what it is that parents are therefore obliged to protect and nurture; to explain who counts as a moral parent and is therefore permitted to take on this weighty task; to outline the obligation of the liberal state vis-à-vis opportunities to p…
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