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Cheryl Miller

New Atlantis blogger Cheryl Miller is a 2007 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow and the editor of Doublethink magazine. She can be reached at cmiller [at] thenewatlantis [dot] com.
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“Blogging Infertility” (Winter 2008)

“The Painless Peace of Twilight Sleep” (Fall 2007)

“Parenthood at Any Price” (Summer 2007)

Infertility Bloggers

From our Winter 2008 issue

Cheryl Miller discusses her new article about infertility patients who have turned to blogs for medical advice and emotional support.

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

ART in the News

Dignity, the "Soul Gene," Medical Tourism, etc.

The Debate over "Dignity" continues. EPPC's Yuval Levin hits back: an "insulting, ill-informed...tirade." Wesley Smith: Pinker's "stupid tantrum." The guys at Reason are loving it. MORE: Ross Douthat, James Poulos, Larry Arnhart, and Ramesh Ponnuru.
Are embryos like plants? Ryan Anderson reports back from a bioethics conference.
For geneticists, knowledge is both power and terror. Jennifer Senior reviews Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene.
"Why I gave a teenager IVF."
The soul gene? Ron Bailey on the genetics of ensoulment.
Medical tourism numbers are overstated. (RELATED: The Philippines bans kidney sales to foreigners. A sign of things to come for fertility tourism?)
High-order multiples might be a thing of the past. A new technique to spot viable IVF embryos.
Should cord-blood banking be standard?

posted by Cheryl Miller | 5:59 pm