Brave new humans : the dirty reality of donor conception

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Label

Brave new humans : the dirty reality of donor conception

Title remainder

the dirty reality of donor conception

Statement of responsibility

Sarah Dingle

Creator

• Dingle, Sarah

Author

• Dingle, Sarah

Subject

• Artificial insemination, Human -- Social aspects
• Children of sperm donors -- Australia -- Biography
• Dingle, Sarah
• Ethics
• Fertilization in vitro, Human -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Artificial insemination, Human -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Fertilization in vitro, Human -- Social aspects
• Identity
• Journalists -- Australia -- Biography
• Sperm donors -- Legal status, laws, etc
• Fertilization in vitro, Human -- Psychological aspects
• Artificial insemination, Human -- Psychological aspects

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Journalist Sarah Dingle was 27 when she learnt that her identity was a lie. Over dinner one night, her mother casually mentioned Sarah had been conceived using a sperm donor. The man who'd raised Sarah wasn't her father; in fact, she had no idea who her father was. Or who she really was. As the shock receded, Sarah put her professional skills to work and began to investigate her own existence. Thus began a ten-year journey to understand who she was - digging through hospital records, chasing leads and taking a DNA test - that finally led her to her biological origins. What she discovered along the way was shocking: hospital records routinely destroyed, trading of eggs and sperm, women dead, donors exploited, and hundreds of thousands of donor-conceived people globally who will never know who they are. But there's one thing this industry hasn't banked on: the children of the baby business taking on their makers. In a profoundly personal way, Brave New Humans shines a light on the global fertility business today - a booming and largely unregulated industry that takes a startlingly lax approach to huge ethical concerns, not least our fundamental human need to know who we are, and where we come from

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

QBOO

Dewey number

176.2

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult