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Title: Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution by Robin Marantz Henig ISBN: 0-618-22415-7 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A delightful guide through a bioethical thicket
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: The story of a technology under fire
Comment: 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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Title: Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage by David Moats ISBN: 015101017X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 02 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Working Poor : Invisible in America by DAVID K. SHIPLER ISBN: 0375408908 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Whose View of Life?: Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells by Jane Maienschein ISBN: 0674011708 Publisher: Harvard Univ Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Tour of Duty : John Kerry and the Vietnam War by Douglas Brinkley ISBN: 0060565233 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension by Stephen S. Hall ISBN: 0618095241 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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