The pursuit of parenthood :: reproductive technology from test-tube babies to uterus transplants /

Since the 1978 birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in England, more than eight million children have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies. From the start, they have stirred controversy and raised profound questions: Should there be limits to the lengths to which peopl...

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1. Verfasser: Marsh, Margaret S., 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Ronner, Wanda
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:Since the 1978 birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in England, more than eight million children have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies. From the start, they have stirred controversy and raised profound questions: Should there be limits to the lengths to which people can go to make their idea of family a reality? Who should pay for treatment? How can we ensure the ethical use of these technologies? And what can be done to address the racial and economic disparities in access to care that enable some to have children while others go without? In this book, a historian and a gynecologist seek to answer these challenging questions. Bringing their unique expertise in gender history and women's health to the subject, the authors examine the unprecedented means - liberating for some and deeply unsettling for others - by which families can now be created. Beginning with the early efforts to create embryos outside a woman's body and ending with such new developments as mitochondrial replacement techniques and uterus transplants, the authors assess the impact of contemporary reproductive technology in the United States. --
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781421429854
1421429853

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