The First Test Tube Baby (Days That Changed the World)

MacDonald, Fiona

ISBN 10: 0836855671 ISBN 13: 9780836855678

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub, 2004

Synopsis

Looks at the 1978 birth of Louise Brown, the first baby born through in-vitro fertilization, as well as events leading up to this revolutionary treatment for infertility and its ramifications.

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Reviewed with Simon Beecroft's The Release of Nelson Mandela.

Gr. 6-12. Books in the Days That Changed the World series do a fine job of combining a close-up view of an earth-shattering event with what led up to the drama and a sense of the event's impact on the future. In Mandela, Beecroft presents lots of detail, historical and contemporary, about the long anti-apartheid struggle, including information about other important leaders, Mandela's Robben Island prison, his release, and the Nobel Peace Prize. He also takes an honest look at South Africa's continuing problems. Test-Tube Baby focuses on both the science and the ethics of in-vitro fertilization. Macdonald discusses DNA, egg collecting, fertilization, and implants (there's one error: cell division numbers are incorrect), as well as the debates about morality and the dangers of genetic engineering. The series design is ideal for browsing; pages are packed with information broken up by colored screens, varied typefaces, and fully captioned photos, including several showing fetal development and one of a newborn with its umbilical cord still attached. The occasional use of tiny type over colored pictures is the only distraction. A glossary, a bibliography, and a Web site list are appended to each volume. Hazel Rochman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0836855671
• ISBN 13: 9780836855678
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 48