The price of pregnancy: Was the first uterus transplantation trial involving human participants ethical?
Johansson, Mats LU
and Cutas, Daniela
LU
(2026)
p.43-62
- Abstract
- The aim of this chapter is to examine uterus transplantation from a research ethics perspective. The chapter focuses on the first clinical trial of uterus transplants, which was carried out in Sweden. The process of research ethics review in relation to this trial is discussed, and specific issues noted by the research ethics committee are highlighted and analysed, including the risks to the donor, to the recipient and to the (future) child. Further ethical issues that do not commonly fall within the research ethics remit are then identified and evaluated. These include the longer-term implications of research on the role and responsibility of the family and society for reproduction, and also on the very concept of health. The chapter... (More)
- The aim of this chapter is to examine uterus transplantation from a research ethics perspective. The chapter focuses on the first clinical trial of uterus transplants, which was carried out in Sweden. The process of research ethics review in relation to this trial is discussed, and specific issues noted by the research ethics committee are highlighted and analysed, including the risks to the donor, to the recipient and to the (future) child. Further ethical issues that do not commonly fall within the research ethics remit are then identified and evaluated. These include the longer-term implications of research on the role and responsibility of the family and society for reproduction, and also on the very concept of health. The chapter contextualises its analysis against the background of the research, noting that earlier interventions were undertaken both in humans and animals that were unlikely to have been permitted in Sweden. (Less)
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- author
- Johansson, Mats
LU
and Cutas, Daniela
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2026-07-30
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- reproductive ethics, family ethics, research ethics, pregnancy, uterus transplant, intrafamilial reproduction
- host publication
- The Ethics of Human Reproduction and the Family : Individual and Collective Interests - Individual and Collective Interests
- editor
- Hens, K ; Cutas, D and Smajdor, A
- pages
- 43 - 62
- publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- DOI
- 10.5040/9781350525191.0007
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- ca74634d-7b91-4c9e-97ba-beb09029cfd6
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- https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781350525191&pdfid=9781350525191.0007.pdf&tocid=b-9781350525191-chapter3
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- 2026-08-04 11:24:37
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booktitle = {{The Ethics of Human Reproduction and the Family : Individual and Collective Interests}},
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title = {{The price of pregnancy: Was the first uterus transplantation trial involving human participants ethical?}},
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doi = {{10.5040/9781350525191.0007}},
year = {{2026}},
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