Everything Conceivable
How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women and the World
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2008
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-102297-0 (ISBN)
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-102297-0 (ISBN)
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The way we have children has changed utterly. This title looks at the workings of the fertility drugs industry, the phenomenon of eggs for sale, the increasing number of twins and the views of the Christian right and women's groups. It asks: what are the real effects of the reproductive revolution?
In the last thirty years, the way we have children has changed utterly. For the first time, the estimated eighty million infertile people worldwide have a chance to be parents. Humans are now effectively able to cheat evolution. But, what are the wider consequences of this? In "Everything Conceivable", Liza Mundy, the first journalist to explore this subject in depth, meets gay families, surrogate mothers, egg donors and single mothers by choice. She looks at the workings of the fertility drugs industry, the phenomenon of eggs for sale, the increasing number of twins and the views of the Christian right and women's groups. And, as the meanings of life, birth, parents and families change, she asks: what are the real effects of the reproductive revolution?
In the last thirty years, the way we have children has changed utterly. For the first time, the estimated eighty million infertile people worldwide have a chance to be parents. Humans are now effectively able to cheat evolution. But, what are the wider consequences of this? In "Everything Conceivable", Liza Mundy, the first journalist to explore this subject in depth, meets gay families, surrogate mothers, egg donors and single mothers by choice. She looks at the workings of the fertility drugs industry, the phenomenon of eggs for sale, the increasing number of twins and the views of the Christian right and women's groups. And, as the meanings of life, birth, parents and families change, she asks: what are the real effects of the reproductive revolution?
Liza Mundy is an award-winning journalist at the Washington Post. She has been writing on the issues and questions around assisted reproduction for the Washington Post, Slate and others for the past two years. She was selected by Oliver Sacks for inclusion in The Best American Science Writing in 2003.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.9.2008 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 324 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik |
| Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-14-102297-3 / 0141022973 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-102297-0 / 9780141022970 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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