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Pandora's baby : how the first test tube babies sparked the reproductive revolution
- Title
- Pandora's baby : how the first test tube babies sparked the reproductive revolution / Robin Marantz Henig.
- Author
- Henig, Robin Marantz.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- viii, 326 p.; 21 cm.
- Subject
- Fertilization in vitro, Human
- Human embryo > Transplantation
- Human reproductive technology
- Fertilization in Vitro > history > Great Britain
- Fertilization in Vitro > history > United States
- Cloning, Organism > ethics > Great Britain
- Cloning, Organism > ethics > United States
- Fertilization in Vitro > legislation & jurisprudence > Great Britain
- Fertilization in Vitro > legislation & jurisprudence > United States
- Human Experimentation > history > Great Britain
- Human Experimentation > history > United States
- Social Change > history > Great Britain
- Social Change > history > United States
- Social Values > Great Britain
- Social Values > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-307) and index.
- Contents
- Monster in a test tube -- I: Ex ova omnia -- 1. Room temperature -- 2. The dance of love -- 3. Laughingstock -- 4. Out of control -- 5. Fits and starts -- 6. Laboratory ghouls -- II: The modern prometheus -- 7. Toward happily every after -- 8. Baby dreams -- 9. Science on hold -- 10. The first one -- 11. A baby clone -- 12. Hang on -- III: Test tube death trial -- 13. Fooling Mother Nature -- 14. Pandora's baby -- 15. Normality -- 16. Prometheus unbound -- 17. Verdict -- IV: Not meant to be known -- 18. Right to life -- 19. Opening Pandora's box -- 20. Tables turned -- 21. From monstrous to mundane -- 22. Pandora's clone -- 23. Mixed blessings.
- Call Number
- JSD 05-6
- ISBN
- 0618224157
- LCCN
- 2003061372
- OCLC
- 52979127
- Author
- Henig, Robin Marantz.
- Title
- Pandora's baby : how the first test tube babies sparked the reproductive revolution / Robin Marantz Henig.
- Imprint
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-307) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JSD 05-6