Simona Corso, Florian Mussgnug, Virginia Sanchini Introduction: Imagining Human Reproduction section 1. Cultural representations Roberto Mordacci Reproductive Utopias and Dystopias: More, Campanella, Bacon and Huxley Simona Corso Birth: Stories from Contemporary Literature and Film Charlotte Ross Surviving Melancholy and Mourning: a Queer Politics of Damage in Italian Literary Representations of Same-sex Parenting Maria RussoIs it Progress or Dystopia? Attitudes toward Genetic Engineering in Contemporary Film section 2. Philosophical orientations Carmen Dell'Aversano e Florian Mussgnug Parenthood, Climate Justice and the Ethics of Care: Notes Towards a Queer Analysis Simone PolloA 21st Century Reproductive Bioethics Lucia Galvagni New Motherhood? Embodiment and Relationships in the Assisted Reproductive Technology Sergio Filippo Magni Person-affecting Procreative Beneficence section 3. Ethics in context Laura Palazzani Reproductive Technologies and the Global Bioethics Debate: A Philosophical Analysis of the Report on ART and Parenthood of the International Bioethics Committee of Unesco Virginia Sanchini, Davide Disalvatore, Sarah Songhorian, Paolo Spada, Pier Paolo Di Fiore Deliberation and Public Bioethics: A Test Case in Reproductive Genetics Federico PennestrìIs Therapeutic Germline Editing Value-based Healthcare? An Early Health Technology Assessment Davide Battisti Genetic Enhancement and the Child's Right to an Open Future Section 4. Free contributions Ali Yousefi Heris How Might Simulation-Based Accounts of Mindreading Explain Pragmatic Interpretation? Piero Mattei-Gentili Social Facts & the Semantic Conception of Norms. Customary Norms as a Test of Ontology