Everything conceivable how assisted reproduction is changing men, women, and the world
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- ISBN: 9780307267276 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 030726727X (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 9780307267276 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 030726727X (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
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Physical Description:
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xx, 406 p. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-385) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : an unexpected development -- 1. The new reproductive landscape -- 2. Women and the dilemmas of modern motherhood -- 3. Every man a father, every man infertile -- 4. It takes a village to make a child : ART and the evolving human family -- 5. "Sperm bank helps lesbians get pregnant!" : how women changed the sperm-banking industry, and the makeup of the family -- 6. Two men and two babies : gay fatherhood through surrogacy -- 7. Single mothers by choice, and the magazine article that made them -- 8. ART and the rights of the child -- 9. Be fruitful and multiply : the big family, by overnight delivery -- 10. "It's always a party with triplets" : the advent of high-order multiples -- 11. Deleting fetuses : selective reduction, ART's best-kept secret -- 12. Twins : the new singleton -- 13. Souls on ice : America's frozen human embryo glut -- 14. Choice revisited : ethics, feminism, and ART -- Epilogue : reproductive science and the future of our families -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1671 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 446 KB). |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
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