Fear, Wonder, and Science in the New Age of Reproductive Biotechnology
ISBN: 9780231544580
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Human reproductive technology; Human genetics; Biotechnology;

This book helps individuals make informed choices about in vitro fertilization, abortion, egg freezing, surrogacy, and other matters of reproduction. Scott Gilbert and Clara Pinto-Correia explain why some of the major forms of assisted reproductive technologies were invented, how they are used, and what they can and cannot accomplish.


Scott Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology Emeritus at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of the widely used textbooks Developmental Biology (eleventh edition, 2016), Ecological Developmental Biology: The Environmental Regulation of Development, Health, and Evolution (second edition, 2015), and Bioethics and the New Embryology: Springboards for Debate (2005).

Clara Pinto-Correia is a developmental biologist, novelist, historian of science, and professor. She performed some of the pioneering studies of mammalian cloning and has had a longstanding weekly biology program on Portuguese public radio. Her books include The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation (1997) and A Maravilhosa Aventura da Vida (The Marvelous Adventure of Life; 2008).
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