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Stealing dreams : a fertility clinic scandal / Mary Dodge and Gilbert Geis.

Title: Stealing dreams : a fertility clinic scandal / Mary Dodge and Gilbert Geis.
Author: Dodge, Mary, 1960-
Publication: Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2003.

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Geis, Gilbert

Description

xiii, 235 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"When three whistle-blowers informed authorities and the media in 1995 that doctors at the prestigious and lucrative Center for Reproductive Health - a fertility clinic operated by the University of California, Irvine (UCI) - were taking eggs from some women and implanting them into others without donor consent, a scandal unfolded that ended careers, destroyed reputations, and forever altered the lives of many families. This first incident of egg theft, as well as claims of insurance fraud, research misconduct, and misappropriation of funds, grabbed headlines around the world and was featured on television programs from Prime Time to The Oprah Winfrey Show. By the time the scandal had subsided several years later, two of the clinic's preeminent physicians had fled the country to avoid prosecution, one doctor was convicted on criminal charges in a highly controversial trial, and UCI had paid over twenty million dollars to settle lawsuits filed by former patients." "The full story behind the much-publicized case is unveiled for the first time in this riveting book. The authors untangle an intricate web of repeated cover-ups, scapegoatings, evasions, nastiness, and injustice. They scrutinize how a complex interplay of circumstances set the stage for wrongdoing at the clinic, reveal how the dramatic events were played out on both the public and legal battlefields, and examine the personal histories, motivations, and actions of the major players - the physicians, the whistle-blowers, the claimants, the lawyers, the various investigatory committees, the overzealous media, and UCI administrators."--Jacket.

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"Chronology": p. xi-xiii.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index.

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Contents

Setting the stage -- The seeds of discontent -- Coincidence, contrivance, and confusion -- Settling up -- Ricardo Asch, M.D. -- Jose Balmaceda, M.D. -- Sergio Stone, M.D.

ISBN

1555535852 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003005450

OCLC

51886258

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Harvard Library