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In Vitro Fertilization - Building Policy from Laboratories to Legislatures (Paperback, Revised)
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In Vitro Fertilization - Building Policy from Laboratories to Legislatures (Paperback, Revised)
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Few recent technologies have attracted as much attention as In
Vitro Fertilization (IVF), a technique in which ova are fertilized
in a glass dish and transferred to the prospective mother. Despite
a large body of literature and much recent publicity on the ethics
of new re-productive technologies, however, we are far from
understanding what actually goes on in the nation's 138 in vitro
fertilization centers, and even farther from possessing a clear
public policy regarding this controversial technology. In this book
the author examines two different, and often opposing worlds of in
vitro fertilization: the public's political, legal and ethical
concerns surrounding the technique, and the personal, pragmatic
world of the individual patients who come to the centers seeding a
cure for infertility. The crux of this analysis revolves around the
intersection, and sometimes the antagonism, between these two
worlds. While use of the centers is growing extremely fast, there
is an absence of any federal-level policy to monitor this
technique. To fill this vacuum, individual practitioners of IVF and
other new reproductive technologies. The author investigates the
current effects of these guidelines in interviews with physicians,
scientists, policy makers, and patients at IVF centers, and argues
that in this case, the public policy we implement should take its
direction from the self-regulation that is already occurring on a
local level and which is so well-developed that it has in effect
taken the place of a formal federal policy. For all those
interested in, or contemplating the rapidly growing field of in
vitro fertilization, this is an objective analysis which answers
many perplexing questions.
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