Everything Conceivable How the Science of Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World

Name: Everything Conceivable How the Science of Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World
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ISBN: 9781400095377

ISBN-10: 1400095379

ISBN-13: 9781400095377

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Authors: Liza Mundy

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Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species. Skyrocketing infertility rates and dizzying technological advances are revolutionizing American families and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself. Using in-depth reporting and riveting anecdotal material from doctors, families, surrogates, sperm and egg donors, infertile men and women, single and gay and lesbian parents, and children conceived through technology, Mundy explores…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/6/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Liza Mundy is the bestselling author of Michelle: A Biography and Everything Conceivable. A longtime award-winning reporter for The Washington Post, she is currently a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.



Prologue: An Unexpected Development



The New Reproductive Landscape



Women and the Dilemmas of Modern Motherhood



Every Man a Father, Every Man Infertile



It Takes a Village to Make a Child: ART and the Evolving Human Family



"Sperm Bank Helps Lesbians Get Pregnant!": How Women Changed the Sperm-Banking Industry-and the Makeup of the Family



Two Men and Two Babies: Gay Fatherhood Through Surrogacy



Single Mothers by Choice, and the Magazine Article That Made Them



ART and the Rights of the Child



Be Fruitful and Multiply: The Big Family, by Overnight Delivery



"It's Always a Party with Triplets": The Advent of High-Order Multiples



Deleting Fetuses: Selective Reduction, ART's Best-Kept Secret



Twins: The New Singleton



Souls on Ice: America's Frozen Human Embryo Glut



Choice Revisited: Ethics, Feminism, and ART


Epilogue: Reproductive Science and the Future of Our Families


Afterword to the Anchor Books Edition


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index