Triple Helix. My Donor-Conceived Story

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 272 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The compelling story of one womans journey to find out the truth about her paternity-and to come to grips with the rewriting of her own history and sense of identity.Now youre over twenty-one and back from overseas, Ive decided its time to tell you something.When Lauren Burns learns she is donor conceived she begins a turbulent journey to discover the identity of her biological father. Battling out-dated legislation and a medical culture of silence, she enters a political campaign to pass world-first laws overturning decades of donor anonymity. She must also grapple with the radical rewriting of her history and sense of identity when she finally finds her biological father and discovers shes part of a well-known Australian family. Laurens extraordinary story traverses the many moral and legislative dilemmas of assisted reproductive technology- the rights of the child and the donor, and the strange terrain to be navigated if and when the two parties ever meet. More than a memoir, Triple Helix is also a detective drama and a critical examination of the fertility industry. It will open eyes, hearts and minds to the complexities of donor-assisted conception from the other side of the crib.

ISBN: 9780702265433