Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution
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Book Overview
This is the highly acclaimed book by Robin Marantz Henig about the early days of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the ethical and legal battles waged in the 1970s, as well as the scientific advances... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0618224157
ISBN13:9780618224159
Release Date:February 2004
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin
Length:326 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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A delightful guide through a bioethical thicket
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Adjectives like "judicious" and "level headed" (see the Publisher's Weekly review) don't do justice to this lively and probing and timely book. Henig has the gift of conveying complex scientific information painlessly and the stories she tells are riveting, full of hubris, lawsuits,medical cowboys, desperate would-be parents, nutty fundamentalists (in one protest at an in-vitro clinic, they carried a sign that read "Incest in a Test Tube") and, of course, politics. If you've been following the debate over stem cell research, cloning or the work of the President's commission on bioethics ( its chairman,Leon Kass, appears in this book as an early opponent of IVF ) Pandora's Baby is invaluable. And if you haven't been following, this is a great place to start.
The story of a technology under fire
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
In Pandora's Baby, Robin Henig tells of a confrontation which came to a head in 1973, where a hospital administrator in New York learned of a rogue experiment in progress which might have created the first human fetus through in vitro fertilization. His decision fostered a new era in reproduction technology and issues which continues to this day, and Henig's survey of IVF procedures and history provides the story of a technology under fire.
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