Eve - The Disobedient Future of Birth

Throughout human history, every single one of us has been born from a person. So far. But that is about to change. Scientific research is on the cusp of being able to grow babies outside human bodies. For the first time, babies could be gestated and born from machines. When Claire Horn began researching this cutting-edge technology, she found a plethora of unanswered legal, social and ethical questions. What does this breakthrough in artificial human gestation mean for motherhood, womanhood and parenthood? A truly radical and urgent deep dive into the most challenging and pertinent questions of our age, Eve is woven throughout with Horn''s reflections on her own pregnancy. Could artificial wombs allow women to redistribute the work of gestating? How do we protect reproductive and abortion rights? And who exactly gets access to this technology, in our vastly unequal world? In this interrogative and fascinating story of modern birth, Horn takes us on a journey from the first orchid-like incubators in the 1880s, to the cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs of today. Eve imagines with eye-opening clarity what all this might mean for the future of humanity.

Product details

• Authors: CLAIRE HORN, Claire Horn
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2023
• EAN: 9781788166898
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-689-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 220 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Bioethics, Bio-ethics