New PDF release: Beginning Life (Contemporary Issues in Science)

By Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald

ISBN-10: 0816062102

ISBN-13: 9780816062102

ISBN-10: 143811897X

ISBN-13: 9781438118970

Scientific innovation calls for study, and study is determined by sufferers and fit volunteers prepared to imagine hazards. contemplating the moral judgements scientific practitioners needs to face, starting lifestyles takes a detailed examine a number of daring scientific options that experience created new lives and kept others. With certain info on assisted reproductive applied sciences like in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy, genetic checking out and treatment, stem cells and healing cloning, and in depth care thoughts for critically untimely newborns, this new source highlights key moral rules and their program to the standard perform of drugs.

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When she was born, they handed her to me for a second. I couldn’t look, so I closed my eyes tight, counted 10 fi ngers and 10 toes, then gave her away. I cried for a month straight. ” The bond that can develop, even with a genetically unrelated baby, was central to a famous 1990 court case in which Anna Johnson, a gestational surrogate, fought to retain custody of the baby she was carrying for Crispina and Mark Calvert. Mrs. Calvert had undergone a hysterectomy (an operation to remove her uterus) and was incapable of becoming pregnant, but her ovaries were unharmed.

Surrogates in India are typically paid between $6,000 and $10,000, a fortune in a country where it might take 15 years to earn the same amount at a more traditional job. “From the money I earn as a surrogate mother I can buy a house,” Nandani Patel told NPR’s Marketplace via translator in December 2007. ” And Priyanka Sharma, a surrogate who is considering entering into a second contract, told NPR via translator, “Yes, I might do this again because after all there’s nothing wrong in this. We give them a baby and they give us much-needed money.

The babies were born at 31 weeks ( full term is 40) and were all severely underweight, with birth weights ranging from two pounds, five ounces to three pounds, four ounces. All were immediately placed on ventilator support. Thanks to a dedicated team of more than 40 specialists, all of the babies survived, albeit some with serious chronic health issues. As of their fourth birthday, one child suffered from seizures; two others had forms of cerebral palsy (a brain condition that effects muscle coordination and movement); and two still required surgically implanted feeding tubes.

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