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Main Catalogs   Accounting Business Communication Business Law Economics Finance Insurance and Real Estate Management Information Systems Management and Organization Marketing Operations and Decision Sciences      Special Catalogs     Case Studies Text Chapters Mapped to Specific Cases How to Build a Book: Select Content Review & Arrange Personalize Request a Copy Keyword    Title, Author, Case #, Etc. ALEKS Homework Manager Discover Econ   Learning Solutions Group     Harvard Business School Press Books — Business and Government  • To include an item in your complimentary custom book, click the item’s Add link. If there is a View link next to an item, you can view the pages by clicking on the link.  • To review the list of items you have selected so far, click on Step 2 in the progress bar above. You have successfully added all of the items to your order. Either click here to review your order or continue to add content from another title.    The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception   Add   View  40 pp.  The Quest to Conceive: Attacking an Ancient Affliction Author(s): Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 02/14/2006 Product Type: HBS Press Chapter HBS Number: 2420BC Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: Biotechnology industry Subjects: Biotechnology; Commerce; Economic analysis; Ethics; Industry analysis; Medical procedures & techniques; Social issues Academic Discipline: Business & government Product Description: For most people, the production of babies is a simple task. However, for many of the 15% of women and 10-15% of men who are infertile, the inability to reproduce is a curse that seems to defy nature. This chapter provides a short history of infertility, examining how the failure to produce has created the commerce of conception. May be used with: (2426BC) Songs of Solomon: Prospects for Building a Better Baby Trade; (2425BC) Trading Places: The Practice and Politics of Adoption; (2424BC) Return to the Forbidden Planet: Issues of Human Cloning; (2423BC) Designing Babies: Fixing Flaws and Pursuing Perfection; (2422BC) Renting Wombs for Money and Love: The Emerging Market for Surrogacy; (2421BC) A Cluster of Cells: Mechanics of the Modern Fertility Market.   Add   View  46 pp.  A Cluster of Cells: Mechanics of the Modern Fertility Market Author(s): Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 02/14/2006 Product Type: HBS Press Chapter HBS Number: 2421BC Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: Biotechnology industry Subjects: Biotechnology; Commerce; Demand analysis; Ethics; Industry analysis; Medical procedures & techniques; Social issues; Supply chains Academic Discipline: Business & government Product Description: In fertility, as in any market, our analysis must start where supply and demand collide to produce some kind of market exchange. This chapter examines what drives demand in the fertility trade, what determines supply, and how the price of desire is set. May be used with: (2426BC) Songs of Solomon: Prospects for Building a Better Baby Trade; (2425BC) Trading Places: The Practice and Politics of Adoption; (2424BC) Return to the Forbidden Planet: Issues of Human Cloning; (2423BC) Designing Babies: Fixing Flaws and Pursuing Perfection; (2422BC) Renting Wombs for Money and Love: The Emerging Market for Surrogacy; (2420BC) The Quest to Conceive: Attacking an Ancient Affliction.   Add   View  36 pp.  Renting Wombs for Money and Love: The Emerging Market for Surrogacy Author(s): Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 02/14/2006 Product Type: HBS Press Chapter HBS Number: 2422BC Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: Biotechnology industry Subjects: Biotechnology; Commerce; Ethics; Government & business; Industry analysis; Medical procedures & techniques; Politics; Social issues Academic Discipline: Business & government Product Description: Surrogacy raises a whole host of commercial and political questions, and even more than IVF and other forms of assisted reproduction, it pushes against traditional definitions of parenthood. This chapter takes an in-depth look at surrogacy, its history, overt commercialism, and political implications. May be used with: (2426BC) Songs of Solomon: Prospects for Building a Better Baby Trade; (2425BC) Trading Places: The Practice and Politics of Adoption; (2424BC) Return to the Forbidden Planet: Issues of Human Cloning; (2423BC) Designing Babies: Fixing Flaws and Pursuing Perfection; (2421BC) A Cluster of Cells: Mechanics of the Modern Fertility Market; (2420BC) The Quest to Conceive: Attacking an Ancient Affliction.   Add   View  39 pp.  Designing Babies: Fixing Flaws and Pursuing Perfection Author(s): Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 02/14/2006 Product Type: HBS Press Chapter HBS Number: 2423BC Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: Biotechnology industry; Genetic engineering Subjects: Biotechnology; Commerce; Ethics; Genetic engineering; Industry analysis; Medical procedures & techniques; Politics; Social issues Academic Discipline: Business & government Product Description: As technologies like preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) become more commonplace and new kinds of genetic screens continue to be developed, it is hard to imagine that a market for designer babies will not emerge. This chapter discusses the science and the politics of genetics, tracing the debate from eugenic ideologies of the 20th century to the evolution of genetic screening in the modern era. May be used with: (2426BC) Songs of Solomon: Prospects for Building a Better Baby Trade; (2425BC) Trading Places: The Practice and Politics of Adoption; (2424BC) Return to the Forbidden Planet: Issues of Human Cloning; (2422BC) Renting Wombs for Money and Love: The Emerging Market for Surrogacy; (2421BC) A Cluster of Cells: Mechanics of the Modern Fertility Market; (2420BC) The Quest to Conceive: Attacking an Ancient Affliction.   Add   View  38 pp.  Return to the Forbidden Planet: Issues in Human Cloning Author(s): Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 02/14/2006 Product Type: HBS Press Chapter HBS Number: 2424BC Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: Biotechnology industry; Genetic engineering Subjects: Biotechnology; Commerce; Ethics; Genetic engineering; Government & business; Industry analysis; Medical procedures & techniques; Social issues Academic Discipline: Business & government Product Description: According to the author, technological advances will eventually make human cloning possible. These technologies will generate commercial markets, and governments will need to regulate these markets. This chapter looks at some of the moral and philosophical issues at the center of the debate over cloning. May be used with: (2426BC) Songs of Solomon: Prospects for Building a Better Baby Trade; (2425BC) Trading Places: The Practice and Politics of Adoption; (2423BC) Designing Babies: Fixing Flaws and Pursuing Perfection; (2422BC) Renting Wombs for Money and Love: The Emerging Market for Surrogacy; (2421BC) A Cluster of Cells: Mechanics of the Modern Fertility Market; (2420BC) The Quest to Conceive: Attacking an Ancient Affliction.   Add   View  47 pp.  Trading Places: The Practice and Politics of Adoption Author(s): Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 02/14/2006 Product Type: HBS Press Chapter HBS Number: 2425BC Geographic Setting: Global Subjects: Biotechnology; Children & youth; Commerce; Ethics; Government & business; Industry analysis; Medical procedures & techniques; Social issues Academic Discipline: Business & government Product Description: The politics and practices around adoption are perhaps even more complex than those that surround more mechanical forms of reproduction. In this chapter, the author looks at the fierce debate over adoption as a social, political, and commercial enterprise, and considers some prospects for the future of the industry. May be used with: (2426BC) Songs of Solomon: Prospects for Building a Better Baby Trade; (2424BC) Return to the Forbidden Planet: Issues of Human Cloning; (2423BC) Designing Babies: Fixing Flaws and Pursuing Perfection; (2422BC) Renting Wombs for Money and Love: The Emerging Market for Surrogacy; (2421BC) A Cluster of Cells: Mechanics of the Modern Fertility Market; (2420BC) The Quest to Conceive: Attacking an Ancient Affliction.   Add   View  47 pp.  Songs of Solomon: Prospects for Building a Better Baby Trade Author(s): Spar, Debora L. Publication Date: 02/14/2006 Product Type: HBS Press Chapter HBS Number: 2426BC Geographic Setting: Global Industry Setting: Biotechnology industry Subjects: Biotechnology; Commerce; Economic analysis; Ethics; Government & business; Industry analysis; Medical procedures & techniques; Social issues Academic Discipline: Business & government Product Description: A market for babies clearly exists, and according to the author this market, despite its flaws and foibles, is not necessarily bad. This chapter addresses some of the ways we might make the market work better. May be used with: (2420BC) The Quest to Conceive: Attacking an Ancient Affliction; (2421BC) A Cluster of Cells: Mechanics of the Modern Fertility Market; (2422BC) Renting Wombs for Money and Love: The Emerging Market for Surrogacy; (2423BC) Designing Babies: Fixing Flaws and Pursuing Perfection; (2424BC) Return to the Forbidden Planet: Issues of Human Cloning; (2425BC) Trading Places: The Practice and Politics of Adoption.

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