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Saving Sebastian
Hazel McHaffie
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Description for Saving Sebastian
Paperback. The much-debated issue of saviour siblings is treated with McHaffie's characteristic poignancy and sensitivity.The author's knowledge of the medical ethics surrounding saviour siblings, and the impact such choices have on families, makes the story powerful and non-sentimental. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 211 x 26. Weight in Grams: 396.
Time is running out for four-year-old Sebastian Zair. A rare blood disorder means that a stem-cell transplant is his only hope of surviving past childhood.
His mother places her trust in the Pemberton Fertility Centre and a controversial IVF procedure which will allow her to select an embryo that is the same tissue type as Sebastian - to create a saviour sibling. But what she doesn't know is that the sword of Damocles is hanging over the Pemberton. A Nigerian couple, the Opakanjos, have just given birth to twins through IVF, but only one is their biological ... Read more
Will they break under the strain? Will Sebastian survive?
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906817879
SKU
V9781906817879
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Ref
99-18
About Hazel McHaffie
Hazel McHaffie is a trained nurse and midwife who has carried out extensive research into medical ethics and has lectured around the world. She is widely published in the medical and academic spheres, and her move into fiction is a culmination of her far-reaching medical knowledge and her creative writing talent. Her novel, Right to Die, was short-listed for the ... Read more
Reviews for Saving Sebastian
There are very few novels which deal with the issues of contemporary medical ethics in the lively and intensely readable way which Hazel McHaffie's books do. - ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH McHaffie's books are skillfully written to bring out the complex ethical issues we as doctors, nurses, patients, or relatives, may face in dealing with difficult issues... These ... Read more