Triple helix, my donor-conceived story, Lauren Burns
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Triple helix, my donor-conceived story, Lauren Burns
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Triple helix
Responsibility statement
Lauren Burns
Sub title
my donor-conceived story
Summary
'Now you're over twentyone and back from overseas, I've decided it's 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 Battling outdated legislation and a medical culture of silence, she enters a political campaign to pass worldfirst laws overturning decades of donor anonymity.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 she's part of a wellknown Australian family. Lauren's 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 donorassisted conception from the other side of the crib
Target audience
adult
Creator
Genre
Subject
- Fertilization in vitro, Human + Social aspects
- Identity (Philosophical concept)
- Human reproductive technology
- Burns, Lauren
- Autobiographies
- Fertilization in vitro, Human + Psychological aspects
- Artificial insemination, Human + Social aspects
- Artificial insemination, Human + Moral and ethical aspects
- Children of sperm donors -- Australia -- Biography
- Fertilization in vitro, Human + Moral and ethical aspects
- Artificial insemination, Human + Psychological aspects
Content
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Incoming Resources
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Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject11
- Fertilization in vitro, Human + Social aspects
- Identity (Philosophical concept)
- Human reproductive technology
- Burns, Lauren
- Autobiographies
- Fertilization in vitro, Human + Psychological aspects
- Artificial insemination, Human + Social aspects
- Artificial insemination, Human + Moral and ethical aspects
- Children of sperm donors -- Australia -- Biography
- Fertilization in vitro, Human + Moral and ethical aspects
- Artificial insemination, Human + Psychological aspects
- Content1
- Author1