{"product_id":"the-pursuit-of-parenthood-margaret-marsh-9781421429847","title":"The Pursuit of Parenthood: Reproductive Technology from Test-Tube Babies to Uterus Transplants","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging history of assisted reproductive technologies and their ethical implications.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in History of Science, Medicine and Technology by the Association of American Publishers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the 1978 birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in England, more than eight million children have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies. From the start, they have stirred controversy and raised profound questions: Should there be limits to the lengths to which people can go to make their idea of family a reality? Who should pay for treatment? How can we ensure the ethical use of these technologies? And what can be done to address the racial and economic disparities in access to care that enable some to have children while others go without?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Parenthood\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Margaret Marsh and gynecologist Wanda Ronner seek to answer these challenging questions. Bringing their unique expertise in gender history and women's health to the subject, Marsh and Ronner examine the unprecedented means--liberating for some and deeply unsettling for others--by which families can now be created. Beginning with the early efforts to create embryos outside a woman's body and ending with such new developments as mitochondrial replacement techniques and uterus transplants, the authors assess the impact of contemporary reproductive technology in the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, we meet the scientists and physicians who have developed these technologies and the women and men who have used them. Along the way, the book dispels a number of fertility myths, offers policy recommendations that are intended to bring clarity and judgment to this complicated medical history, and reveals why the United States is still known as the \"Wild West\" of reproductive medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Marsh, Wanda Ronner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421429845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421429847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Margaret Marsh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43980332531967,"sku":"9781421429847","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a5caad1-486c-46aa-bf79-c8286665d638.jpg?v=1683249321","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-pursuit-of-parenthood-margaret-marsh-9781421429847","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}