Designing Babies: The Brave New World of Reproductive Technology

By Roger Gosden

Book Overview

No other subject in science today provokes more controversy than human reproduction and genetics. Our increasing ability to manipulate fertility and shape our genetic destiny raises many questions --... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716732998
• ISBN13: 9780716732990
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: W H Freeman & Co
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Written in clear, non-technical language

In Designing Babies: The Brave New World Of Reproductive Technology, reproductive expert Roger Gosden provides the non-specialist general reader with a compelling and comprehensive overview of what is happening in the biological science of assisted reproduction. Written in clear, non-technical language, Designing Babies explains this rapidly emerging science and the several social and ethical dilemmas involved. The reader is given an accessible understanding of the near future medical goals of gene screening, prenatal genetic repair, cloning, and prenatal sex selection. Designing Babies is a very highly, "reader friendly" addition to school and community library biological science collections.