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Author Henig, Robin Marantz.

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

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  618.178 H38    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  618.178 H38    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  618.178 HENIG    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  618.178 H511P    Check Shelf
Description viii, 326 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-307) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Fertilization in vitro, Human.
Human embryo -- Transplantation.
Human reproductive technology.
Fertilization in Vitro -- history -- Great Britain.
Fertilization in Vitro -- history -- United States.
Cloning, Organism -- ethics -- Great Britain.
Cloning, Organism -- ethics -- United States.
Fertilization in Vitro -- legislation & jurisprudence -- Great Britain.
Fertilization in Vitro -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States.
Human experimentation in medicine -- history -- Great Britain.
Human experimentation in medicine -- history -- United States.
Social Change -- history -- Great Britain.
Social Change -- history -- United States.
Social Values -- Great Britain.
Social Values -- United States.
ISBN 0618224157
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