Google baby / directed and produced by Zippi Brand Frank.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Frank, Zippi Brand., Director, Producer.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrogate motherhood--Economic aspects.

Surrogate motherhood.

Human reproductive technology--Social aspects.

Human reproductive technology.

Surrogate motherhood--Moral and ethical aspects.

Surrogate mothers--Moral and ethical aspects.

Surrogate mothers.

Human embryo--Transplantation--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human embryo.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76 min.).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2009.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Google Baby is a journey across three continents telling the story of the up and coming baby production industry in the age of globalization. Doron, an Israeli entrepreneur with a high tech background proposes a new service - pregnancy producing. The pregnancy producer (as he introduces himself) provides customers with a cost effective solution using outsourcing of the surrogacy element to India as a way to lower prices. The preferred genetic material is selected by the clients from their computer: sperm and eggs are purchased on-line and multiple embryos are produced, frozen, packed and shipped by air to India - where they are implanted into the wombs of local surrogates. The customers arrive only at the end of the nine month pregnancy period to pick up their babies. Today, technology has turned 'making a baby' into an act independent of sex. And globalization is making it affordable. All one needs is a credit card. Instructions can be found on YouTube.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 14, 2013).

OCLC:

864629155