Fear, Wonder, and Science in the New Age of Reproductive Biotechnology
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231170947 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Katayoun Chamany, New School University)Every book on science and its social uses should be like this one. (Stuart Newman, New York Medical College)This pathbreaking book is a milestone, giving us a new way of understanding human fertility, reproduction, and childbirth. Each part of this rich tapestry of stories is woven in an acute consciousness of complex social, personal, and technical histories. Each part requiresas well as nurturesemotional, intellectual, and sociohistorical intelligence. (from the foreword by Donna Haraway) . To bring it to pass, a scientist with philosophical inclinations and liter
Schneiderman Professor of Biology Emeritus at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki. She performed some of the pioneering studies of mammalian cloning and has had a longstanding weekly biology program on Portuguese public radio. Her books include The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation
Scott Gilbert and Clara Pinto-Correia speak to the couple trying to become pregnant, the woman contemplating an abortion, and the student searching for sound information about human sex and reproduction. Their book is an enlightening read for men as well as for women, describing in clear terms how babies come into existence through both natural and assisted reproductive pathways. They update “the talk” for the twenty-first century: the birds, the bees, and the Petri dishes. How does one make decisions today about in vitro fertilization, abortion, egg freezing, surrogacy, and other matters of reproduction? This book provides the intellectual and emotional intelligence to help i