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Description

1. viii, 326 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

1. Fertilization in Vitro > legislation & jurisprudence > Great Britain
2. Human Experimentation > history > Great Britain
3. Fertilization in Vitro > legislation & jurisprudence > United States
4. Social Change > history > Great Britain
5. Social Values > United States
6. Human embryo > Transplantation
7. Fertilization in vitro, Human
8. Fertilization in Vitro > history > Great Britain
9. Human reproductive technology
10. Social Change > history > United States
11. Human Experimentation > history > United States
12. Cloning, Organism > ethics > United States
13. Fertilization in Vitro > history > United States
14. Social Values > Great Britain
15. Cloning, Organism > ethics > Great Britain

Contents

1. Monster in a test tube -- I: Ex ova omnia -- 1. Room temperature -- 2. The dance of love -- 3. Laughingstock -- 4. Out of control -- 5. Fits and starts -- 6. Laboratory ghouls -- II: The modern prometheus -- 7. Toward happily every after -- 8. Baby dreams -- 9. Science on hold -- 10. The first one -- 11. A baby clone -- 12. Hang on -- III: Test tube death trial -- 13. Fooling Mother Nature -- 14. Pandora's baby -- 15. Normality -- 16. Prometheus unbound -- 17. Verdict -- IV: Not meant to be known -- 18. Right to life -- 19. Opening Pandora's box -- 20. Tables turned -- 21. From monstrous to mundane -- 22. Pandora's clone -- 23. Mixed blessings.

Call number

1. JSD 05-6

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-307) and index.

Author

1. Henig, Robin Marantz.

Title

1. Pandora's baby : how the first test tube babies sparked the reproductive revolution / Robin Marantz Henig.

Imprint

1. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-307) and index.

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LCCN

1. 2003061372

ISBN

1. 0618224157

Research call number

1. JSD 05-6