Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies

by José Van Dyck

On Christmas day, 1993, a 59-year-old British woman gave birth to healthy twins. In Italy the very same week, a black woman bore a white baby, produced from the semen of her white husband and an egg donated by a white woman. Heated debates ensued across the United States and Europe.
Fifteen years ago the very idea of conception outside a woman's womb triggered science fiction fantasies and alarmist speculations. Today, thousands of babies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081478786X
• ISBN13: 9780814787861
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"