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From IVF to immortality : controversy in the era of reproductive technology / Ruth Deech, Anna Smajdor.
- Title
- From IVF to immortality : controversy in the era of reproductive technology / Ruth Deech, Anna Smajdor.
- Author
- Deech, Ruth
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Smajdor, Anna
- Description
- x, 233 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This text provides a clear, simple account of techniques involved in assisted reproduction and embryo research. It explores controversies raised by developments in reproductive technology since the first IVF baby in 1978, such as 'saviour siblings', designer babies, reproductive cloning and embryo research.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Embryo Research > ethics
- Embryo Research > legislation & jurisprudence
- Great Britain Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority
- Great Britain. Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority
- Human reproduction > Government policy > Great Britain
- Human reproductive technology > Law and legislation > Great Britain
- Human reproductive technology > Moral and ethical aspects > Great Britain
- Human reproductive technology > Social aspects > Great Britain
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted > ethics
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted > legislation & jurisprudence
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-230) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Reproductive technologies and the birth of the HFEA -- Ethics, embryos, and infertility -- Saviour siblings, designer babies, and sex selection -- Fertility is a feminist issue -- Private lives and public policy : the story of Diane Blood -- Human rights and reproduction -- Deconstructing the family -- Embryonic stem cells and therapeutic cloning.
- ISBN
- 9780199219780 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0199219788 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780199219797 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0199219796 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007032630
- OCLC
- 164802838
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library