Leah Gilman
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View article: Donor profiles, spreadsheets and video calls: un/known donor conception in the digital age
Donor profiles, spreadsheets and video calls: un/known donor conception in the digital age Open
This article explores how connections brought about through practices of donor conception are changing in the context of mediatisation and, in particular, how digital technologies shape possibilities for donors and recipient families to kn…
View article: Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What’s the right age to know your donor relatives?
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What’s the right age to know your donor relatives? Open
The development of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT), in conjunction with social media, has had profound consequences for the management of information about donor conception. One outcome is that it is now possible to circumvent f…
View article: A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience Open
This article asks how well new developments in family life are reflected in law and policy, with a particular focus on donor conception. There has been an unprecedented ‘opening up’ of family life in recent decades; this increased diversit…
View article: Openness is sperm and egg donor conception: Improving support for donors and their families
Openness is sperm and egg donor conception: Improving support for donors and their families Open
This brief discusses the policy implications of the findings of a recent large scale study of UK egg and sperm donors. Since 2005, UK sperm and egg donors must consent to being identifiable to people conceived from their donation(s), shoul…
View article: Openness is sperm and egg donor conception: improving support for donors and their families
Openness is sperm and egg donor conception: improving support for donors and their families Open
This brief discusses the policy implications of the findings of a recent large scale study of UK egg and sperm donors. Since 2005, UK sperm and egg donors must consent to being identifiable to people conceived from their donation(s), shoul…
View article: The case for reframing known donation
The case for reframing known donation Open
Contemporary UK egg and sperm donation exists in two predominant forms: (i) clinic-based, identity-release donation; and (ii) known donation, which can take place either inside or outside of the clinic context. Regulatory and clinical disc…
View article: Donors
Donors Open
Drawing on interviews with donors, their kin and fertility counsellors, the authors discuss what donation stories can tell us about contemporary understandings of connectedness, time and morality in the context of reproduction and family l…
View article: O-219 Donor conception and Commercial Genomics: how are donor conceived people, their parents and donors using direct-to-consumer genetic testing?
O-219 Donor conception and Commercial Genomics: how are donor conceived people, their parents and donors using direct-to-consumer genetic testing? Open
Study question How do donor conceived people, their parents and donors use direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT)? Summary answer DTCGT is changing how information about donor conception is accessed and managed by parents, donors and d…
View article: Talking to your children about being an egg or sperm donor
Talking to your children about being an egg or sperm donor Open
How do people who have donated their egg or sperm to others talk to their own children about their donation? Using examples from our University of Manchester research, we explore how donors talk about the connections between their children…
View article: The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate
The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate Open
Multiple sociological studies have demonstrated how talk of ‘good’ motives enables people to maintain the presentation of a moral self in the context of stigmatised behaviours. Far fewer have examined why people sometimes describe acting f…
View article: Being an egg or sperm donor: The impact of donation on donors and their families
Being an egg or sperm donor: The impact of donation on donors and their families Open
This leaflet explores the impact of egg and sperm donation on donors’ own lives and family relationships. We use examples from our interviews with donors, their families and counsellors to show how donors and their families experienced egg…
View article: Being an egg or sperm donor: connections with recipient parents
Being an egg or sperm donor: connections with recipient parents Open
This leaflet explores an often-overlooked relationship: the connection between donors and their recipients, that is, the parent or parents of the child born from their donation. Many egg and sperm donors in our research felt an important c…
View article: Being an egg or sperm donor: balancing ‘being available’ with ‘knowing your place’?
Being an egg or sperm donor: balancing ‘being available’ with ‘knowing your place’? Open
Donors in our research felt strongly that they had two responsibilities:1. to be available and contactable to children born from their donation, and 2. to know their place and avoid overstepping parental boundaries.This leaflet shows how d…
View article: Tracing pathways of relatedness: how identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood
Tracing pathways of relatedness: how identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood Open
This article draws on an interview study with UK ‘identity-release’ sperm and egg donors, exploring how, in the context of a new ethic of openness around donor conception, they articulate their role in relation to offspring. I show that pa…
View article: Organizing Openness: How UK Policy Defines the Significance of Information and Information Sharing about Gamete Donation
Organizing Openness: How UK Policy Defines the Significance of Information and Information Sharing about Gamete Donation Open
'Openness' is increasingly held up as a self-evident virtue, presented as inherently positive and progressive in both the public and personal sphere. This article examines how this ideal is realized in the regulation of gamete donation in …
View article: Toxic money or paid altruism: the meaning of payments for identity‐release gamete donors
Toxic money or paid altruism: the meaning of payments for identity‐release gamete donors Open
Public discourses commonly frame gamete, organ and other forms of bodily donation as altruistic ‘gifts’. However, despite on‐going debates about the ethics of payments to donors, few studies have examined the views of donors themselves reg…
View article: Qualifying kinship: how do UK gamete donors negotiate identity-release donation?
Qualifying kinship: how do UK gamete donors negotiate identity-release donation? Open
With effect from 1st April 2005, UK law was amended such that gamete donors must
\nnow consent to their identity being released to their donor offspring, should they
\nrequest it after the age of eighteen. This qualitative study investigat…
View article: Identity-release gamete donation in the UK: the views and experiences of donors: report for policy makers and practitioners
Identity-release gamete donation in the UK: the views and experiences of donors: report for policy makers and practitioners Open
Summary of key findings•The vast majority of post-2005 donors interviewed for this study supported the introduction of identity-release legislation and all were open to contact from offspring in the future.•All donors reported that their o…