Eric Blyth
Biographic Data
| ID | 194392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Blyth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Blyth |
| SIGNATURE | BLYTH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Searching for ‘relations’ using a DNA linking register by adults conceived following sperm donation
Secrets and disclosure in donor conception
This article considers the disclosure, sharing and exchange of information on being donor conceived within families, drawing on data from a study undertaken with donor-conceived adults registered withUKDonor Link (a voluntaryDNA-linking register). This paper considers the narratives of how respondents found out they were donor-conceived and what events triggered disclosure of this information. This paper then goes on to examine the role secrecy p…
Relationships and boundaries between provider and recipient families following embryo adoption
This article reports on a study of individuals and couples who provided or received embryos under the Snowflakes® embryo adoption programme in the US and had established contact with each other. This mixed-methods study comprised two phases: an online survey, followed by email interviews. It explores participants’ initial experiences of establishing contact after embryo adoption and the birth of a child; how they developed and negotiated boundari…
Voluntary DNA-based information exchange and contact services following donor conception: An analysis of service users’ needs
Medical science has enabled the creation of families through the use of donor conception but some lifelong policy and practice implications are only recently being recognized. Research and practice have shown that donor conception can, for some, carry substantial long-term consequences. In this paper we present findings from a questionnaire-based study that sought to shed light on donor-conceived adults’ and gamete donors’ views on service and su…
Encouraging Self-Reflection in Social Work Students: Using Personal Construct Methods
We report on a research study in which we introduced undergraduate social work students in England to two methods originating in Personal Construct Theory (PCT) as a way of encouraging in-depth self-reflection. The methods were first piloted with four students and subsequently used with two large classes of second-year students. The students often found the methods challenging, but many felt that these enabled them to reflect upon social work pra…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Crime and Rehabilitation
The idea for this special issue of the journal emerged from the International Conference, ‘Crime Prevention and Offender Rehabilitation: Prospects and Challenges’, held at the University of Hong Ko
Can Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Impact Singapore's Low Fertility Rate
Objective: This paper considers the potential contribution that assisted reproductive technology (ART) may make to population replenishment in countries that have experienced extended periods of below-populationreplacement Total Fertility Rates (TFR), by focusing on the specific situation of Singapore, which has recorded 'ultra-low' TFRs for many years.Methods: The factors contributing to ultra-low TFRs in Singapore, the economic and social conse…
The changing profile of surrogacy in the UK – Implications for national and international policy and practice
Since 2007, the numbers of UK Parental Orders granted following surrogacy have markedly increased. More recently, eligibility criteria have been extended to unmarried heterosexual couples and same-sex couples rather than only married couples. Numbers seeking fertility treatments, including through surrogates, outside their country of residence have also increased. This paper presents the limited data currently available – from UK General Register…
Access to genetic and birth origins information for people conceived following third party assisted conception in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, four distinct time periods may be identified during which differentiated information about their genetic origins may be available to a donor-conceived person. In addition, an individual conceived as the result of a surrogacy arrangement and who is also subject to a subsequent Parental Order may access differentiated information relating to the surrogacy arrangement dependent on which of the UK nations the Parental Order was…
Parental Orders and identity registration: One country three systems
Under provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, the UK government introduced the Parental Order as a means by which a couple who had commissioned a surrogate to conceive a child for them, and who met specified conditions, could legally assume parental responsibility for a child born following a surrogacy arrangement other than applying to adopt the child. From the outset, implementation of these provisions was problematic and…
Globalization and cross-border reproductive services: Ethical implications of surrogacy in India for social work
Surrogacy in the context of cross-border care has hitherto received little attention from the international social work community. In India, the provision of surrogacy services for foreign couples may be seen as part of the country’s wider health tourism industry. This article overviews current evidence on surrogacy in India, and discusses the extent to which proposed legislation, the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Bill and Rules…
The professionalization of social work in England
This paper contextualizes current issues regarding the professionalization of social work in England within its historical development. Despite the early origins of social work in England (as in the rest of the United Kingdom) in the mid-nineteenth century, formal regulation and registration of social work professionals is a recent development. A key tension between social work's roles in empowering service users and as an agency of the state, th…
Swedish Donor Offspring and Their Legal Right to Information
The Role of Birth Certificates in Relation to Access to Biographical and Genetic History in Donor Conception
In 1984, among its recommendations for the regulation of assisted conception services in the UK, the Warnock Committee proposed that the birth certificate of a donor-conceived person should record the fact of donor conception. While this proposal was never implemented, over twenty years later, a Joint Committee of the House of Lords and House of Commons recommended the use of birth certificates as a means of enabling donor–conceived persons to le…
To Be or not to Be? A Critical Appraisal of the Welfare of Children Conceived through New Reproductive Technologies
Over three million children are believed to have been born worldwide – and over 200,000 annually - as a result of “new reproductive technologies” (NRTs). This paper provides a critical review of the proposition that children are always best-served by being born. Drawing on the specific examples of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI); multiple births; pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and selecting the characteristics of children, and d…
The UK's gamete donor `crisis' - a critical analysis
Since April 2005, individuals donating sperm, eggs or embryos for the treatment of others in the UK have been required to agree to the disclosure of their identity to any child conceived as a result of their donation on reaching the age of 18. The main arguments advanced against the removal of donor anonymity are: first, it is responsible for a dramatic decline in the number of donors; second, it causes particular problems for donors in egg shari…
Involving Children in Health and Social Research: Human becomings’ or ‘active beings
This article draws on the authors' experiences of undertaking health and social research involving children in Australia and England and focuses on securing the informed consent of children to participate in such research. A clear trend within literature, service provision, legislation and international conventions recognizes children as 'active beings' in all aspects of their lives. The services that are the focus of the research and evaluation …
Reproductive tourism - a price worth paying for reproductive autonomy
Debates concerning the degree to which reproductive technology (and, within this, assisted conception) should be subjected to control generally focus on the appropriate balance to be struck between the views of the majority in a democratic state, the need to ensure adequate protection of those directly involved, the need to ensure public acceptance of specific procedures and research and the freedom of individuals to organize their life as they s…
Anonymity in donor-assisted conception and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
What is now known as donor insemination (DI) has been practised for at least several hundred years (Novaes, 1998). In what appears to be the first detailed account of its successful use, in Philadelphia in 1884
Policy formation in gamete donation and egg sharing in the UK-a critical appraisal
The implications of adoption for donor offspring following donor‐assisted conception
In this paper the authors, all experienced social workers with research and practice interests in assisted conception, review practices concerning access to genetic origins information in adoption, and consider to what extent these may be relevant for practice in donor‐assisted conception. The paper concludes with policy and practice recommendations that take account of the views of donor offspring and their desire for increased information about…
Regulation of assisted conception services in Europe: Implications of the new reproductive technologies for 'the family
In this paper we attempt to draw attention to the widespread variation in legislation and regulation of assisted conception services throughout Europe and the implications that this may have for what is understood as 'a family'. At present, access to assisted conception services appears to rely on a 'traditional' notion of the family with the consequence that large numbers of potential service users are excluded. We believe that the existing stat…
Sharing genetic origins information in third party assisted conception: A case for Victorian family values
Sharing genetic origins information in third party assisted conception: A case for Victorian family values
The Best Interests of the Child in Assisted Human Reproduction: The Interplay Between the State, Professionals, and Parents
Developments in assisted human reproduction (AHR) have aroused considerable debate and interest around the world, with most governments accepting that they are matters of public policy. This politicization of AHR is explored in the context of a consideration of the oft-used term "the best interests of the child." This "rallying call" is frequently cited as the primary concern in the determination of policy. This article is based on the contention…
Involving Children in Health and Social Research: Human becomings’ or ‘active beings
This article draws on the authors' experiences of undertaking health and social research involving children in Australia and England and focuses on securing the informed consent of children to participate in such research. A clear trend within literature, service provision, legislation and international conventions recognizes children as 'active beings' in all aspects of their lives. The services that are the focus of the research and evaluation …
The Role of Birth Certificates in Relation to Access to Biographical and Genetic History in Donor Conception
In 1984, among its recommendations for the regulation of assisted conception services in the UK, the Warnock Committee proposed that the birth certificate of a donor-conceived person should record the fact of donor conception. While this proposal was never implemented, over twenty years later, a Joint Committee of the House of Lords and House of Commons recommended the use of birth certificates as a means of enabling donor–conceived persons to le…
Reproductive tourism - a price worth paying for reproductive autonomy
Debates concerning the degree to which reproductive technology (and, within this, assisted conception) should be subjected to control generally focus on the appropriate balance to be struck between the views of the majority in a democratic state, the need to ensure adequate protection of those directly involved, the need to ensure public acceptance of specific procedures and research and the freedom of individuals to organize their life as they s…
Secrets and disclosure in donor conception
This article considers the disclosure, sharing and exchange of information on being donor conceived within families, drawing on data from a study undertaken with donor-conceived adults registered withUKDonor Link (a voluntaryDNA-linking register). This paper considers the narratives of how respondents found out they were donor-conceived and what events triggered disclosure of this information. This paper then goes on to examine the role secrecy p…
Anonymity in donor-assisted conception and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
What is now known as donor insemination (DI) has been practised for at least several hundred years (Novaes, 1998). In what appears to be the first detailed account of its successful use, in Philadelphia in 1884
The changing profile of surrogacy in the UK – Implications for national and international policy and practice
Since 2007, the numbers of UK Parental Orders granted following surrogacy have markedly increased. More recently, eligibility criteria have been extended to unmarried heterosexual couples and same-sex couples rather than only married couples. Numbers seeking fertility treatments, including through surrogates, outside their country of residence have also increased. This paper presents the limited data currently available – from UK General Register…
Globalization and cross-border reproductive services: Ethical implications of surrogacy in India for social work
Surrogacy in the context of cross-border care has hitherto received little attention from the international social work community. In India, the provision of surrogacy services for foreign couples may be seen as part of the country’s wider health tourism industry. This article overviews current evidence on surrogacy in India, and discusses the extent to which proposed legislation, the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Bill and Rules…
The United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and the welfare of the child: A critique
The implications of adoption for donor offspring following donor‐assisted conception
In this paper the authors, all experienced social workers with research and practice interests in assisted conception, review practices concerning access to genetic origins information in adoption, and consider to what extent these may be relevant for practice in donor‐assisted conception. The paper concludes with policy and practice recommendations that take account of the views of donor offspring and their desire for increased information about…
Access to genetic and birth origins information for people conceived following third party assisted conception in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, four distinct time periods may be identified during which differentiated information about their genetic origins may be available to a donor-conceived person. In addition, an individual conceived as the result of a surrogacy arrangement and who is also subject to a subsequent Parental Order may access differentiated information relating to the surrogacy arrangement dependent on which of the UK nations the Parental Order was…
The Best Interests of the Child in Assisted Human Reproduction: The Interplay Between the State, Professionals, and Parents
Developments in assisted human reproduction (AHR) have aroused considerable debate and interest around the world, with most governments accepting that they are matters of public policy. This politicization of AHR is explored in the context of a consideration of the oft-used term "the best interests of the child." This "rallying call" is frequently cited as the primary concern in the determination of policy. This article is based on the contention…
Encouraging Self-Reflection in Social Work Students: Using Personal Construct Methods
We report on a research study in which we introduced undergraduate social work students in England to two methods originating in Personal Construct Theory (PCT) as a way of encouraging in-depth self-reflection. The methods were first piloted with four students and subsequently used with two large classes of second-year students. The students often found the methods challenging, but many felt that these enabled them to reflect upon social work pra…
Parental Orders and identity registration: One country three systems
Under provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, the UK government introduced the Parental Order as a means by which a couple who had commissioned a surrogate to conceive a child for them, and who met specified conditions, could legally assume parental responsibility for a child born following a surrogacy arrangement other than applying to adopt the child. From the outset, implementation of these provisions was problematic and…
The professionalization of social work in England
This paper contextualizes current issues regarding the professionalization of social work in England within its historical development. Despite the early origins of social work in England (as in the rest of the United Kingdom) in the mid-nineteenth century, formal regulation and registration of social work professionals is a recent development. A key tension between social work's roles in empowering service users and as an agency of the state, th…
The UK's gamete donor `crisis' - a critical analysis
Since April 2005, individuals donating sperm, eggs or embryos for the treatment of others in the UK have been required to agree to the disclosure of their identity to any child conceived as a result of their donation on reaching the age of 18. The main arguments advanced against the removal of donor anonymity are: first, it is responsible for a dramatic decline in the number of donors; second, it causes particular problems for donors in egg shari…
Relationships and boundaries between provider and recipient families following embryo adoption
This article reports on a study of individuals and couples who provided or received embryos under the Snowflakes® embryo adoption programme in the US and had established contact with each other. This mixed-methods study comprised two phases: an online survey, followed by email interviews. It explores participants’ initial experiences of establishing contact after embryo adoption and the birth of a child; how they developed and negotiated boundari…
Can Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Impact Singapore's Low Fertility Rate
Objective: This paper considers the potential contribution that assisted reproductive technology (ART) may make to population replenishment in countries that have experienced extended periods of below-populationreplacement Total Fertility Rates (TFR), by focusing on the specific situation of Singapore, which has recorded 'ultra-low' TFRs for many years.Methods: The factors contributing to ultra-low TFRs in Singapore, the economic and social conse…
Swedish Donor Offspring and Their Legal Right to Information
To Be or not to Be? A Critical Appraisal of the Welfare of Children Conceived through New Reproductive Technologies
Over three million children are believed to have been born worldwide – and over 200,000 annually - as a result of “new reproductive technologies” (NRTs). This paper provides a critical review of the proposition that children are always best-served by being born. Drawing on the specific examples of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI); multiple births; pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and selecting the characteristics of children, and d…
Policy formation in gamete donation and egg sharing in the UK-a critical appraisal
Section 30–the acceptable face of surrogacy
This paper considers the development of surrogacy practice in Britain and policy responses to it. Four discrete policy options are identified and discussed. Although surrogacy has been on the political agenda since the appointment of the Warnock Committee in 1982 there has been a failure to initiate adequate public debate concerning the challenges posed by surrogacy. Instead, official policy, notably the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 and Sectio…
Is education welfare social work
Conventionally the education welfare service has been synonymous with school attendance surveillance and enforcement. It has all too often been perceived as an ancillary and subservient service to teachers rather than as a professional social work service in its own right. This paper challenges this perception by examining the social work task hi education welfare and comparing its practice with that peformed in ‘mainstream’ social work agencies.…
Is education welfare social work
Conventionally the education welfare service has been synonymous with school attendance surveillance and enforcement. It has all too often been perceived as an ancillary and subservient service to teachers rather than as a professional social work service in its own right. This paper challenges this perception by examining the social work task hi education welfare and comparing its practice with that peformed in ‘mainstream’ social work agencies.…
Assisted reproduction: What's in it for children
Recent technological advances in assisted reproduction and publicity accompanying surrogacy arrangements have raised questions about the extent to which such practices should be subjected to formal regulatory control. For the most part, the consequences for children created following the successful application of assisted reproduction techniques have been ignored. This paper examines the implications of the techniques and the proposals for their …
Exclusion From School: A First Step in Exclusion From Society
In recent years increasing concerns have been expressed about the behaviour of young people in Britain and responses to it. Within schools this has focused on the nature and incidence of violent and disruptive behaviour displayed by children and levels of exclusion. Perceptions that ‘too many children’ are excluded from school have prompted inquiries by the government, professional teaching associations and independent researchers and generated c…
Section 30–the acceptable face of surrogacy
This paper considers the development of surrogacy practice in Britain and policy responses to it. Four discrete policy options are identified and discussed. Although surrogacy has been on the political agenda since the appointment of the Warnock Committee in 1982 there has been a failure to initiate adequate public debate concerning the challenges posed by surrogacy. Instead, official policy, notably the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 and Sectio…
Donor Insemination
The United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and the welfare of the child: A critique
Secrets and Lies: Barriers to the Exchange of Genetic Origins Information following Donor Assisted Conception
Until the Warnock Report of 1984, the veil of secrecy surrounding donor assisted conception in the UK went more or less unchallenged. Starting with a look at the Report and subsequent legislation, Eric Blyth explores the main arguments for and against releasing information about their genetic origins to donor assisted offspring. Factors contributing to the debate include increasing public awareness of the importance of genetics in defining identi…
Sharing genetic origins information in third party assisted conception: A case for Victorian family values
Sharing genetic origins information in third party assisted conception: A case for Victorian family values
The Best Interests of the Child in Assisted Human Reproduction: The Interplay Between the State, Professionals, and Parents
Developments in assisted human reproduction (AHR) have aroused considerable debate and interest around the world, with most governments accepting that they are matters of public policy. This politicization of AHR is explored in the context of a consideration of the oft-used term "the best interests of the child." This "rallying call" is frequently cited as the primary concern in the determination of policy. This article is based on the contention…
The implications of adoption for donor offspring following donor‐assisted conception
In this paper the authors, all experienced social workers with research and practice interests in assisted conception, review practices concerning access to genetic origins information in adoption, and consider to what extent these may be relevant for practice in donor‐assisted conception. The paper concludes with policy and practice recommendations that take account of the views of donor offspring and their desire for increased information about…
Regulation of assisted conception services in Europe: Implications of the new reproductive technologies for 'the family
In this paper we attempt to draw attention to the widespread variation in legislation and regulation of assisted conception services throughout Europe and the implications that this may have for what is understood as 'a family'. At present, access to assisted conception services appears to rely on a 'traditional' notion of the family with the consequence that large numbers of potential service users are excluded. We believe that the existing stat…
Anonymity in donor-assisted conception and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
What is now known as donor insemination (DI) has been practised for at least several hundred years (Novaes, 1998). In what appears to be the first detailed account of its successful use, in Philadelphia in 1884
Policy formation in gamete donation and egg sharing in the UK-a critical appraisal
Reproductive tourism - a price worth paying for reproductive autonomy
Debates concerning the degree to which reproductive technology (and, within this, assisted conception) should be subjected to control generally focus on the appropriate balance to be struck between the views of the majority in a democratic state, the need to ensure adequate protection of those directly involved, the need to ensure public acceptance of specific procedures and research and the freedom of individuals to organize their life as they s…
Involving Children in Health and Social Research: Human becomings’ or ‘active beings
This article draws on the authors' experiences of undertaking health and social research involving children in Australia and England and focuses on securing the informed consent of children to participate in such research. A clear trend within literature, service provision, legislation and international conventions recognizes children as 'active beings' in all aspects of their lives. The services that are the focus of the research and evaluation …
To Be or not to Be? A Critical Appraisal of the Welfare of Children Conceived through New Reproductive Technologies
Over three million children are believed to have been born worldwide – and over 200,000 annually - as a result of “new reproductive technologies” (NRTs). This paper provides a critical review of the proposition that children are always best-served by being born. Drawing on the specific examples of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI); multiple births; pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and selecting the characteristics of children, and d…
The UK's gamete donor `crisis' - a critical analysis
Since April 2005, individuals donating sperm, eggs or embryos for the treatment of others in the UK have been required to agree to the disclosure of their identity to any child conceived as a result of their donation on reaching the age of 18. The main arguments advanced against the removal of donor anonymity are: first, it is responsible for a dramatic decline in the number of donors; second, it causes particular problems for donors in egg shari…
The professionalization of social work in England
This paper contextualizes current issues regarding the professionalization of social work in England within its historical development. Despite the early origins of social work in England (as in the rest of the United Kingdom) in the mid-nineteenth century, formal regulation and registration of social work professionals is a recent development. A key tension between social work's roles in empowering service users and as an agency of the state, th…
Swedish Donor Offspring and Their Legal Right to Information
The Role of Birth Certificates in Relation to Access to Biographical and Genetic History in Donor Conception
In 1984, among its recommendations for the regulation of assisted conception services in the UK, the Warnock Committee proposed that the birth certificate of a donor-conceived person should record the fact of donor conception. While this proposal was never implemented, over twenty years later, a Joint Committee of the House of Lords and House of Commons recommended the use of birth certificates as a means of enabling donor–conceived persons to le…
Parental Orders and identity registration: One country three systems
Under provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, the UK government introduced the Parental Order as a means by which a couple who had commissioned a surrogate to conceive a child for them, and who met specified conditions, could legally assume parental responsibility for a child born following a surrogacy arrangement other than applying to adopt the child. From the outset, implementation of these provisions was problematic and…
Globalization and cross-border reproductive services: Ethical implications of surrogacy in India for social work
Surrogacy in the context of cross-border care has hitherto received little attention from the international social work community. In India, the provision of surrogacy services for foreign couples may be seen as part of the country’s wider health tourism industry. This article overviews current evidence on surrogacy in India, and discusses the extent to which proposed legislation, the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Bill and Rules…
The changing profile of surrogacy in the UK – Implications for national and international policy and practice
Since 2007, the numbers of UK Parental Orders granted following surrogacy have markedly increased. More recently, eligibility criteria have been extended to unmarried heterosexual couples and same-sex couples rather than only married couples. Numbers seeking fertility treatments, including through surrogates, outside their country of residence have also increased. This paper presents the limited data currently available – from UK General Register…
Access to genetic and birth origins information for people conceived following third party assisted conception in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, four distinct time periods may be identified during which differentiated information about their genetic origins may be available to a donor-conceived person. In addition, an individual conceived as the result of a surrogacy arrangement and who is also subject to a subsequent Parental Order may access differentiated information relating to the surrogacy arrangement dependent on which of the UK nations the Parental Order was…
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