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Language
English
Description
A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious fervor leads him to sue Zoe for custody.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
©1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Remaking Eden is a fascinating exploration of the future of reprogenetic technologies - a cautiously optimistic look at the scientific advances that will allow us to engineer life in ways that were unimaginable just a few short years ago. Indeed, in ways that go far beyond cloning, and that are at once more thrilling and more frightening."--BOOK JACKET. "Could a woman give birth to her identical twin sister? Could a child have two genetic mothers?...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Their desperate decision to conceive another child raises both ethical and moral questions and begins to erode their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent, throughout our lives, on others. Yet American law and policy disregard these stubborn facts, with statutes and judicial decisions that presume people to be autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose. As legal scholar O. Carter Snead points out, this individualistic ideology captures important truths about human freedom, but it also means that we have no obligations...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xviii, 409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating investigation into the lucrative, minimally regulated, fast-growing industry of egg freezing, from a young reporter on a personal journey into the world of cutting-edge reproductive medicine"--
Author
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
293 pages, [16] pages of plates : portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It was a perfect Wednesday morning when Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin kissed his partner, Ellidy, goodbye to go spearfishing. Most days Ellidy would go to the beach too, but that day she didn't. Late, there was a knock at the door. A man had been found unconscious on the ocean floor. It was Chumpy. From that moment, Elliday's world stopped. There was deep grief, disbelief and then the gradual realisation that this was real. Ellidy's partner of eight years,...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The kinds of families we see today are different than they were even a decade ago as paths to parenthood have been rejiggered by technology, activism, and law. Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. He tells a variety of unconventional family-creation tales-- adoption and assisted reproduction, gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families-- set against...
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering concrete, gender-affirming advice on topics like tracking fertility, choosing a sperm donor, legal considerations, IVF, IUI, adoption, navigating gender and pregnancy, and more. The result is a much-needed how-to guide for every aspect of...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This indispensable, comprehensive, and accessible reference book to infertility provides people with the tools they need to be their own best advocates as they navigate fertility treatments and highs and lows of their infertility journey. Author Heather Huhman guides readers through every stage of the process-from knowing when to seek medical advice to parenting after infertility, and everything in between. There's the medical nitty gritty: getting...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This informative compendium goes beyond the basics of sexual reproduction to examine the diversity of family creation. Using interviews with individuals and families, Rachel Ginocchio breaks down in-vitro fertilization, surrogacy, adoption, and more"--
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