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Author:   Beth Whitehouse
Publisher:   Beacon Press
Imprint:   Beacon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9780807001219

ISBN 10:   080700121
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 March 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Prelude 1 “Mind If I Take One Last Ski Run?” 2 “What Do You Think It Is?” 3 “Never in a Million Years” 4 “This Is a Beautiful Embryo” 5 “For Them, the Dice Are a Bit Loaded” 6 “This Is for Desperate Couples” 7 “We Have Incomplete Information” 8 “I Could Never Do That” 9 “Why Me? Why This?” 10 “I Wish We Hadn’t Done It” 11 “The Easter Bunny Would Be Jealous” 12 “Come On, Baby” 13 “Take an Additional Folic Acid, in Case It’s Twins” 14 “Things Look Really Good” 15 “So Much of Who We Are Happens at the Beginning” 16 “It’s Hard to Tell Parents, ‘Don’t Do This’ ” 17 “There’s No Black-and-White Answer” 18 “We’re Not Going to Stop the Future” 19 “It’s a Boy!” 20 “I Like This Place a Lot” 21 “Now It’s Crunch Time” 22 “You Conceived Your Son for This?” 23 “Will I Get Handcuffed with My Kids?” 24 “This Is Mind-Boggling” 25 “Being a Mom Is the Coolest Gift” 26 “It’s Now or Never” 27 “Bubba’s My Brother” 28 “Good Luck” 29 “Her Body Is Healing” 30 “Why Are You Taking the Lights Down?” 31 “Back Up and Bling-Bling” 32 “It Goes So Fast”

Reviews

&ldquo; The Match is a thought-provoking, extremely well-researched, and deeply personal account of one of the most controversial ethical dilemmas of our time. By allowing readers to walk beside the Trebing family as their daughter&rsquo;s illness leads them to conceive a sibling who might save her life, Beth Whitehouse takes us on a journey so rich in hope, commitment, and love that it forces us to suspend any judgments we might have held. . . . The result is a great story, and a remarkable work of journalism.&rdquo;<br> &mdash;Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister <br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;In the quest to cure their daughter, Steve and Stacy Trebing made an enormous and potentially dangerous medical decision. . . . Beth Whitehouse was there with them, witnessing their struggle and capturing it with accuracy and empathy. The Match is a riveting, vividly written tale.&rdquo; <br> &mdash;Liza Mundy, author of Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changin

“This is a wonderful story. . . . If a disease was killing your child, would you have another baby to try to save that child’s life? And if you did, would you fear that the new child’s life might be in danger as well? These are some of the very difficult questions that Stacy and Steve Trebing asked themselves before Stacy gave birth to another child, a little boy, who helped their daughter who might otherwise have died. Their story is chronicled in The Match.”—Barbara Walters, The View   “The Match is a thought-provoking, extremely well-researched, and deeply personal account of one of the most controversial ethical dilemmas of our time. . . . A great story, and a remarkable work of journalism.”—Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister   “The Match is a riveting, vividly written tale of what happens when two powerful forces—parental love and modern science—converge to try to help a very brave child through the deliberate conception of another.”—Liza Mundy, author of Everything Conceivable

This is a wonderful story. . . . If a disease was killing your child, would you have another baby to try to save that child's life? And if you did, would you fear that the new child's life might be in danger as well? These are some of the very difficult questions that Stacy and Steve Trebing asked themselves before Stacy gave birth to another child, a little boy, who helped their daughterwho might otherwise have died. Their story is chronicled in The Match. --Barbara Walters, The View <br> The Match is a thought-provoking, extremely well-researched, and deeply personal account of one of the most controversial ethical dilemmas of our time. . . . A great story, and a remarkable work of journalism. --Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister <br> The Match is a riveting, vividly written tale of what happens when two powerful forces--parental love and modern science--converge to try to help a very brave child through the deliberate conception of another. --L

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Beth Whitehouse is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for Newsday and an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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