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The Baby Business: How Money, Science and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception »
Authors: Debora L. Spar
ISBN-13: 9781591396208, ISBN-10: 1591396204
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Debora L. Spar
Debora Spar is the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Book Synopsis
Spar (business administration, Harvard Business School) explores the ways in which socio-economic factors are driving the global market for high-tech reproduction. Drawing upon independent research as well as interviews with top reproductive scientists, she reveals the inner workings of market segments such as surrogate motherhood, adoption, stem cell research, and human cloning. She concludes by suggesting some ways of regulating the "baby business." Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Fortune Magazine
Spar is admirably thorough in this lucid look at the issues more and more parents face.
Table of Contents
| 1 | The quest to conceive | 1 |
| 2 | A cluster of cells | 31 |
| 3 | Renting wombs for money and love | 69 |
| 4 | Designing babies | 97 |
| 5 | Return to the forbidden planet | 129 |
| 6 | Trading places | 159 |
| 7 | Songs of Solomon | 195 |
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