Title: Everything Conceivable
First published: 2008
Description: Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species.Skyrocketing infertility rates and dizzying technological advances are revolutionizing American families and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself. Using in-depth reporting and riveting anecdotal material from doctors, families, surrogates, sperm and egg donors, infertile men and women, single and gay and lesbian parents, and children conceived through technology, Mundy explores the impact of assisted reproduction on individuals as well as the ethical issues raised and the potentially vast social consequences. The unforgettable personal stories in Everything Conceivable run the gamut from joyous to tragic; all of them raise questions we dare not ignore.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Current Events, Nonfiction, Human reproductive technology, Social aspects, Economic aspects of Human reproductive technology, Social aspects of Human reproductive technology, Economic aspects, New York Times reviewed, Human reproductive technology, moral and ethical aspects, Family Characteristics, Assisted Reproductive Techniques, Psychology, Infertility, Case Reports, Socioeconomic Factors
Places: United States
LC classification: RG133.5 .M86 2008