A Child Against All Odds - Hardcover

Winston, Robert

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593054946 ISBN 13: 9780593054949

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2006

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One of Britain’s leading fertility specialists provides the definitive account of modern reproductive technology in this hard-hitting, sometimes humourous, look at the scientific, social and ethical background of the struggle to discover and control the secrets of reproduction.

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About the Author:

Robert Winston is one of the country's best-known scientists. As Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College, University of London, and Director of NHS Research and Development and Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Hammersmith Hospital, he has made advances in fertility medicine and been a leading voice in the debate on genetic engineering. His television series, including Your Life in Their Hands, Making Babies, The Human Body, The Human Mind and The Story of God and have made him a household name across Britain. He became a life peer in 1995.

Review:

"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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