Research Catalog

Title

The baby business : how money, science, and politics drive the commerce of conception / Debora L. Spar.

Author

Spar, Debora L.

Publication

Boston : Harvard Business School Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Description

xix, 299 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In The Baby Business, Debora Spar argues that it is time to acknowledge the commercial truth about reproduction and to begin thinking about ways of governing it. In this remarkable behind-the-scenes account, she combines pioneering research and interviews with the industry's top reproductive scientists and trailblazers to provide a first glimpse at how the industry works. Taking readers on a journey inside controversial market-segments such as stem cell research surrogacy, egg swapping, "designer babies," cross-border adoption, and human cloning, the book challenges us to examine how we can balance science, law, and commerce in our quest to satisfy one of humanity's most basic desires."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Adoption
• Reproductive Medicine > economics
• Genetic Services > economics
• Commerce
• Human reproductive technology > Economic aspects
• Surrogate motherhood > Economic aspects
• Infertility > Treatment > Economic aspects
• Infertility > therapy
• Adoption > Economic aspects
• Reproductive Techniques > economics
• Surrogate Mothers
• Socioeconomic Factors

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-277) and index.

Contents

1. The quest to conceive -- 2. A cluster of cells -- 3. Renting wombs for money and love -- 4. Designing babies -- 5. Return to the forbidden planet -- 6. Trading places -- 7. Songs of Solomon.

ISBN

1591396204 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005030503
• 9781591396208

OCLC

• OCM62161140
• SCSB-5229328

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries