Preface -- Table of contents -- PART ONE - THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK -- The European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, and its Protocols -- Biomedicine, the Family and Human Rights: Progress and Achievements in Biotechnology -- PART TWO - NATIONAL REPORTS: GENETICS AND ARTIFICIAL PROCREATION -- Section I - Common Law Jurisdictions -- Genetics and Artificial Procreation in the U.S.A. -- Genetics and Artificial Procreation in Canada -- Genetics and Artificial Procreation in Australia -- Genetics and Artificial Procreation in New Zealand -- Section II - Roman Law Jurisdictions -- Genetics and Artificial Procreation in Italy -- Genetics and Artificial Procreation in the Netherlands -- Section III - Germanic and Russian Jurisdictions -- Genetics and Artificial Procreation in Austria -- Genetics Artificial Procreation in Russia -- PART THREE - GENERAL REPORT -- Section I - Genetics -- Genetics and Common Law -- The use of biothechnology in medicine with particular regard to questions in family law -- Section II - Artificial Reproduction -- Assisted Conception in Common Law Jurisdictions -- Artificial Reproductive Technology General Report on the Law of the Germanic Countries -- Artificial Procreation in the Nordic Countries -- PART FOUR - JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVE -- Losing control? - some case -- Biomedicine, the Family and Human Rights: The judicial perspective -- GENERAL CONCLUSIONS -- Biomedicine, the Family and Human Rights: the Same Ethics for all?.