The Art of Making Children

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION PART I QUESTIONS OF ORIGIN Introduction to Part I CHAPTER ONE The gift of life CHAPTER TWO The child explorer CHAPTER THREE Why a child at all costs? CHAPTER FOUR Sexuality and procreation CHAPTER FIVE The father in procreation CHAPTER SIX Being another CHAPTER SEVEN New modes of origin CHAPTER EIGHT Death in procreation PART II QUESTIONS OF DIFFERENCE Introduction to Part II CHAPTER NINE Donor insemination CHAPTER TEN Same-sex procreation CHAPTER ELEVEN The child who comes from the cold CHAPTER TWELVE A desire to clone PART III QUESTIONS OF DESTINY Introduction to Part III CHAPTER THIRTEEN A present-day oracle CHAPTER FOURTEEN The tragedies of predictions CHAPTER FIFTEEN The uncertainty of predictions CHAPTER SIXTEEN The aspirations of pre-implantation diagnosis CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Procreation in the web of prediction PART IV BEYOND PROCREATION Introduction to Part IV CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The mutations of the Symbolic CHAPTER NINETEEN Programmed not to be programmed CHAPTER TWENTY The enclaves of the unexpected CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The fault line of origin CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Everything can always change NOTES REFERENCES INDEX