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• Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Science) 2004

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Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards human embryo research - a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics. Such a simplistic dichotomy, encouraged by vociferous opponents of abortion and proponents of medical research, is precisely what Jane Maienschein seeks to counter with this book.

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This book should be required reading for anyone trying to understand the scientific and ethical issues that will dominate medicine in the next quarter century. - Publishers Weekly; Maienschein brilliantly brings to the debate a variable absent in most discussions of the subject - history. - Michele Pridmore-Brown, Times Literary Supplement; Maienschein's historical account is both engaging and accurate. - Robert Winston, Nature; Maienschein's delightful book Whose View of Life? is a welcome reminder - and, for optimists, represents the hope - that today's intransigence might someday yield to a humbler stance by all partisans in this debate. - R. Alta Charo, New England Journal of Medicine

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