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05401cam a22007694a 4500 001 CA49F6EE2B0511DE80C1F007A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20240220011609 008 030828s2004 mau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2003061372 020 $a 9780618224159 020 $a 0618224157 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YBM $d XY4 $d BAKER $d CCS $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d IWV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a RG135 $b .H46 2004 060 00 $a 2004 B-522 060 10 $a WQ 11 AA1 $b H511p 2004 082 00 $a 618.1/78059 $2 22 100 1 $a Henig, Robin Marantz. 245 1 $a Pandora's baby : $b how the first test tube babies sparked the reproductive revolution / $c Robin Marantz Henig. 260 $a Boston : $b Houghton Mifflin, $c 2004. 300 $a viii, 326 p. ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-307) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a On a September Morning in 1973, a hospital administrator in New York City learned of a rogue experiment in progress at his institution and ordered the destruction of a test tube containing a frothy mixture of human eggs and sperm. Had the experiment been allowed to continue, it might have resulted in the first human fetus created through in vitro fertilization. In Pandora's Baby, the award-winning journalist Robin Marantz Henig tells the story of that confrontation, which ushered in a new era in reproductive technology. She takes us back to the early days of IVF, when the procedure was viewed as crackpot science and its pioneers as outsiders in the medical world. Henig lays out the ethical and political battlefield of the 1970s-a battlefield that is recreated with each new technology-and traces the sea change that has occurred in the public perception of "test tube babies." It is a human story, of men and women grappling with the moral implications of a scientific discovery: researchers, couples yearning for babies, hospital administrators, and bioethicists. Through these people Henig brings to life the argument made most forcefully against IVF in the early days: that it was the first step down the slippery slope toward genetic engineering, designer babies, and human clones. Even though this argument is worrisome and antiprogressive, Henig says, many of its most scary prophecies seem to be coming true. Pandora's Baby is a compelling story from the not-so-distant past, which brilliantly presents the scientific and ethical dilemmas we confront ever more starkly as germ-line engineering and human cloning become possible. 650 0 $a Fertilization in vitro, Human. 650 0 $a Human embryo $x Transplantation. 650 0 $a Human reproductive technology. 650 12 $a Fertilization in Vitro $x history $z Great Britain. 650 12 $a Fertilization in Vitro $x history $z United States. 650 22 $a Cloning, Organism $x ethics $z Great Britain. 650 22 $a Cloning, Organism $x ethics $z United States. 650 22 $a Fertilization in Vitro $x legislation & jurisprudence $z Great Britain. 650 22 $a Fertilization in Vitro $x legislation & jurisprudence $z United States. 650 22 $a Human Experimentation $x history $z Great Britain. 650 22 $a Human Experimentation $x history $z United States. 650 22 $a Social Change $x history $z Great Britain. 650 22 $a Social Change $x history $z United States. 650 22 $a Social Values $z Great Britain. 650 22 $a Social Values $z United States. 856 41 $3 Sample text $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/hm051/2003061372.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm041/2003061372.html 856 41 $3 Table of contents $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hm041/2003061372.html 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/2003061372-b.html 941 $a 20 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724060930.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305023548.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214024034.0 952 $l LTAX046 $d 20220805011320.0 952 $l N4AX745 $d 20201013084944.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926083907.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190502022827.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720022810.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20140415014704.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l O4AX446 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OMAX631 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OYAX081 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PWAX296 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UTAX115 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CA49F6EE2B0511DE80C1F007A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search