Bioethics: All That Matters

A shift into something close to genuine intellectual territory with Donna Dickenson's breezy and informative Bioethics: All That Matters, as recommended by Steven Poole in the Guardian. I rather enjoyed it, although I had a couple of understandable and predictable quibbles with the closing chapter. I liked the refusal to accept the existing euphemistic jargon for various forms of reproductive technology and the clear and precise explanations of some of the technologies involved. So here are a few highly uncritical notes gleaned from first quick read through.
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