Product Description: Able to tinker with embryos and alter their genetic material, scientists are ushering in the age of designer babies. Quest for Perfection charts reproductive medicine's past and future. In the journal Nature, geneticist Benno Muller-Hill advised that the book's last line should be heeded by everyone involved in this field...read more

Product Description: Reproductive technology is typically discussed in the future tense. Yet doctors have always treated involuntary childlessness. This book looks at the recent history of infertility and the different ways medicine has treated it. It traces the reluctance to allow infertility a past to a new tension that has emerged between utopian and anti-utopian fears about the growth rate and composition of population...read more