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Author:	Liza Mundy	Publisher:	Alfred a Knopf Inc
ISBN-10:	1400044286	Subject:	Health & Fitness
ISBN-13:	9781400044283	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	2007	Condition:	Good
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Skyrocketing infertility rates and the accompanying explosion in reproductive technology are revolutionizing the American family and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself. In this work of investigative reporting, journalist Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind what is today a controversial, multibillion-dollar industry, and examines how the huge social experiment that is assisted reproduction is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species.--From publisher description.
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Length:	406 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	1.5 in.
Weight:	24.8 oz.

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Skyrocketing infertility rates and the accompanying explosion in reproductive technology are revolutionizing the American family and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself. In this riveting work of investigative reporting, Liza Mundy, an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post, captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind what is today a controversial, multibillion-dollar industry, and examines how the huge social experiment that is assisted reproduction is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species. Based on in-depth reporting from across the nation and around the world, using riveting anecdotal material from doctors, families, and children--many of them now adults--conceived through in vitro fertilization, Mundy looks at the phenomena created by assisted reproduction and their ramifications. Never before in the history of humankind has it been possible for a woman to give birth to an infant who is genetically unrelated to her. Never before has it been possible for a woman to be the genetic parent of children to whom she has not given birth. Never before has the issue of choice had such kaleidoscopic implications. If you support reproductive freedom, does that mean you support everything being offered in the reproductive marketplace? Thawing frozen embryos and letting them expire? Selecting the sex of your baby? Conceiving triplets and "reducing" the pregnancy down to twins? EVERYTHING CONCEIVABLE explores the personal impact on individuals using assisted reproduction to conceive, and the moral, ethical, and pragmatic decisions they make on their journey to parenthood. It looks at the vast social consequences: for hospital neonatal wards, for family structure, for schools, for our notion of genetic relatedness and whether it matters, for adoption; for our nation as a whole, and how we think about the earliest human life-forms. The book explores questions of social justice: the ethics of buying or borrowing some part of the reproductive process, as with egg donation and surrogacy. It looks at entirely new family structures being created by families who have conceived using sperm donors, so that children may have half-siblings around the country with whom they are, or are not, in contact. And it looks toward the future, to the impact today's technology may have on coming generations. Fascinating, commanding, keenly observed and reported, rich in personal drama as well as in the science of evolution and reproduction, Liza Mundy's EVERYTHING CONCEIVABLE is a groundbreaking consideration of the changes sweeping through our culture and the world.
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"[A] lucid, mostly approving look at how humans are tinkering with the age-old project of reproducing ourselves....[M]uch of the information in EVERYTHING CONCEIVABLE is fascinating....And the book gains considerable depth from Mundy's reportorial urge to dig into all aspects of a story." (04/22/2007)

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 1400044286
Title : Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World
EAN : 9781400044283
Authors : Liza Mundy
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Knopf
Publication Date : 2007-04-24
Pages : 432
List Price (MSRP) : 26.95
Height : 1.4000 inches
Width : 6.5000 inches
Length : 9.1000 inches
Weight : 1.4500 pounds
Keywords : General AAS, General, Hospital Administration, Medical Ethics, Medicine & Technology, Reproduction, Fertility, Reproductive, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Good
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