ectogenesis
English
editEtymology
editFrom ecto- (“outside-”) + -genesis. The modern biological sense was coined by British biologist J. B. S. Haldane in 1923 in the lecture that formed his 1924 book Daedalus; or, Science and the Future.
Noun
editectogenesis (uncountable)
- The development of an organism in an artificial environment outside the body in which it naturally grows.
- 2010, Christopher Kaczor, The Ethics of Abortion, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Complete ectogenesis is already excluded. Partial ectogenesis is the continued development of an already generated human being in an artificial womb after transfer from a maternal womb.
- 2012, Irina Aristarkhova, Hospitality of the Matrix, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
- Ectogenesis is a genesis “outside” the maternal body. The “outside” can be artificial (machine), which I address in this chapter, or another bodily environment (man or animal), which I will address in the next chapter.
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editFurther reading
edit- ectogenesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia