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Ka-Ching! You're a Parent

The Baby Business

Reviewed by John Wilson | posted 8/01/2006 12:00AM

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But what does "fairy-tale prose" look like? How can we recognize it, so we can plunge fearlessly into the market, no longer encumbered by foolish fancies? When Lee Silver writes in Remaking Eden about the future of genetic engineering—"The final frontier will be the mind and the senses. Alcohol addiction will be eliminated, along with tendencies toward mental disease and antisocial behavior like extreme aggression"—is he indulging in fairy-tale prose, or is he merely giving us a scientist's clear-headed look ahead at our brave new world?

You decide.

John Wilson is editor of Books & Culture.

Related Elsewhere:

The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception is available at Amazon.com and other retailers.

An interview with the author, Debora Spar, can be found in the New York Times. Spar's biography can be found on her Harvard faculty page.

Christianity Today's most recent cover story discussed the blessings of many children.

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