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  • Making Multiple Babies

    Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

    by Chia-Ling Wu ...
    Series Book 52 - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
    Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies ... Read more

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    What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More

    by Jeremy Gruber, Sheldon Krimsky ...
    For a quarter of a century, the Council for Responsible Genetics has provided a unique historical lens into the modern history, science, ethics, and politics of genetic technologies. Since 1983 the Council has had leading scientists, activists, science writers, and public health advocates researching and reporting on a broad spectrum of issues, including genetically engineered foods, biological ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Hormone Myth

    How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down

    by Robyn Stein DeLuca, PhD ...
    **“**The Hormone Myth is a bracing, accurate breath of fresh air. It turns conventional wisdom about hormones on its head, and provides a far more liberating view of women’s health than what we’ve all been taught.”—Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom“Is it that time of month?”“Is your biological clock ticking?”"You're so emotional lately—are you g... ... Read more

    $14.89 CAD

  • Medical Ethics For Dummies

    by Jane Runzheimer, Linda Johnson Larsen ...
    A practical, insightful guide to the moral and ethical standards of healthcareSucceeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices, and so much ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation

    Second Edition

    by Evelina Weidman Weidman Sterling, Ellen Sarasohn Glazer ...
    Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation is a helpful, authoritative guide to negotiating the complex and emotive issues that arise for those considering whether or not to pursue egg donation. It presents information clearly and with compassion, exploring the practical, financial, logistical, social and ethical questions that commonly arise. This fully updated second edition also includes recent ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Introduction to Bioethics, An: Fourth Edition - Revised and Updated

    by Thomas A. Shannon & Nicholas J. Kockler ...
    This book provides an introductory survey of various bioethical issues facing society from beginning of life issues to end of life issues, and several issues in between. ... Read more

    $25.22 CAD

  • Hard to Bear

    Investigating the science and silence of miscarriage

    by Isabelle Oderberg ...
    ‘An unbeatable combination of compassion and courage, help and hope.’ – Kaz Cooke, author of Up the Duff and You’re Doing it WrongEvery year miscarriage affects up to 150,000 Australians and the people that love them. So why are we so damned bad at dealing with it?A busy doctor dismissing a patient’s physical or mental pain, an emergency department falling far short of adequate care or a friend or ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Period

    The Real Story of Menstruation

    by Kate Clancy ...
    A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual’s period as useless, and some doctors still believe it’s unsafe for a menstruating person to swim in the ocean wearing a tampon. Period ... Read more

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  • Is Breast Best?

    Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

    by Joan B. Wolf ...
    Series Book 4 - Biopolitics
    Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding. Despite the fact that breastfeeding has become the ultimate expression of maternal dedication ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Genetics

    Science, Ethics, and Public Policy

    by Mark P. Aulisio, Françoise Baylis, Geoffrey D. Block, Hawley Fogg-Davis, Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Konrad Hockedlinger, Rodulf Jaenisch, Gregory E. Kaebnick, Muin J. Khoury, Roberta Springer Loewy, Thomas May, Edward R. B. McCabe, Linda L. McCabe, Annette Patterson, Jason Scott Robert, Martha Satz, Dena Towner, The President's Council on Bioethics, Francis Fukuyama ...
    Series series Readings in Bioethics
    Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies, is covered regularly in the media, and affects people everyday around the globe. In ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Cut It Out

    The C-Section Epidemic in America

    by Theresa Morris ...
    “Engagingly written, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this book [is] a must-read not only for womens health advocates and scholars of reproduction, but also for those engaged in health care policy.”—Susan Markens, author of Surrogate Motherhood and The Politics of Reproduction  Cut It Out examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth ... Read more

    $24.59 CAD

  • So When Are You Having Kids

    The Definitive Guide for Those Who Aren’t Sure If, When, or How They Want to Become Parents

    by Jordan Davidson ...
    As we expand our understanding of what “family” means, we need to change the way we think about having kids.How much does it cost to have kids? How long can I wait? What if I have fertility issues? And, wait a minute… do I even want kids? If you’re unsure whether you want kids or struggling to decide, this book is for you.So When Are You Having Kids? is not your parents’ parenting book, nor is it ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD