The baby business
Subtitle: elite eggs, designer genes, and the thriving commerce of conception
By: Debora L. Spar.
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects.; Infertility -- Treatment -- Economic aspects.; Surrogate motherhood -- Economic aspects.; Adoption -- Economic aspects.; Infertility -- therapy.; Adoption.; Commerce.; Genetic Services -- economics.; Reproductive Medicine -- economics.; Reproductive Techniques -- economics.; Socioeconomic Factors.; Surrogate Mothers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The quest to conceive; title: A cluster of cells: mechanics of the modern fertility market; title: Renting wombs for money and love; title: Designing babies; title: Return to the forbidden planet; title: Trading places: the practice and politics of adoption; title: Songs of Solomon: prospects for building a better baby trade.