Designing Babies: How Technology Is Changing the Ways We Create Children

by Robert Klitzman

Book Overview

Since the first "test tube baby" was born over 40 years ago, In Vitro Fertilization and other Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have advanced in extraordinary ways, producing millions of babies. An estimated 20% of American couples use infertility services to help them conceive, and that number is growing. Such technologies permit thousands of people, including gay and lesbian couples and single parents, to have offspring. Couples can now...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190054476
• ISBN13: 9780190054472
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"