Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal [Hardcover]

Mary Dodge (Author), Gilbert Geis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 28, 2003

The true story behind the nationally publicized case of egg and embryo theft at a prestigious fertility clinic.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Stealing Dreams is a model case study of white-collar crime, and depicts the profound difficulties of investigating and exposing malfeasance on the new frontiers of biomedical practice. The book is of interest to anyone interested in issues of professional ethics, of institutional cover-ups, and of media sensationalism. It also makes for a simply engrossing story." (Philip Jenkins, author of Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America and Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography Online )

About the Author

Mary Dodge is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver. She is the coeditor (with Gilbert Geis) of Lessons in Criminology. Gilbert Geis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, at the University of California, Irvine. He has written twenty-five books, including Crimes of the Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O.J. Simpson, also published by Northeastern University Press.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Northeastern (August 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555535852
• ISBN-13: 978-1555535858
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,519,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars accurate and entertaining, August 31, 2004

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temperdieu "temperdieu" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal (Hardcover)

Two well known researchers, professors of criminology from the University of California itself, uncover and accurately expose a maze of questionable if not unethical behavior from two leading professors and the administration efforts to cover up the infetility scandal for several years. They clearly show how an institution should not react to a crisis and how tragic and unjust its errors can be to the innocent. Quite an entertaining story.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true horror story, October 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal (Hardcover)

A detailed and accurate story of what can go wrong in modern nedicine. An account of the irresponsibility and impunity of large state institution's administrations and how a crime and a scapegoat can be created to satisfy public clamor, giving a false, erroneous sense of justice.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Yawn, February 18, 2004

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"michaeljohn789" (Irvine, Calif.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal (Hardcover)

Page-turner? Sure, if your idea of fun is slogging through the encyclopedia. This is a weird book that feels like payback for the Villa Park, California, fertility doctor who claimed to be ignorant of his colleagues' misdeeds. In fact, maybe it was that same doctor who gives this book a five-star rating?