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In a world where in vitro has become big business, this is a hard-hitting look at modern reproductive technology. It is written by a leading fertility specialist who draws on personal and professional experience in this motive area of science.
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Robert Winston is one of the country's best-known scientists. As Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College, London, and an active researcher in reproductive physiology, he has made advances in fertility medicine and is a leading voice in the debate on embryo research and genetic engineering. His television series, including Your Life in Their Hands, Making Babies, The Human Body, Child of Our Time, Human Instinct, Human Mind and The Story of God, have made him a household name across Britain. He became a life peer in 1995.
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"Erudite and accessible, powerful and humane." * Independent on Sunday * "The awesome history of reproductive medicine from myth to the latest breakthroughs ... magisterial in its unfolding of the science for a lay audience" * Sunday Telegraph *
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- PublisherBantam
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0553817442
- ISBN 13 9780553817447
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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Book Description Paperback. New edition. Compared to the famously fecund rabbit, for whom a single act of coitus has a 90 per cent chance of creating a litter of up to 12 rabbits, humans are very infertile animals. Here in the UK, the average chance of conception is about 18 per cent per month. And in 98 per cent of cases, successful conception leads only to the birth of a single infant. It is unsurprising then that huge efforts have been made to increase our fertility. In vitro fertilisation, first attempted one hundred years ago, has now become big business. Market forces, combined with the desperation of many couples to fulfil their biological imperative, have pushed doctors and scientists closer to the boundaries of what is desirable or ethical. And as we are increasingly able to access and control the embryo, the opportunities of altering human genetics to eradicate disease, but also to change human characteristics, becomes a real, and to some, frightening possibility. "A Child Against All Odds" is a ground-breaking book for Robert Winston as it falls squarely in his area of expertise. First published 2006. Bantam Books, 2007. A fine, unmarked copy that presents as brand new. 3.5 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 20 Centimeters. Seller Inventory # 4972644
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