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Violence
Some
Confrontations with corporate agents; murder attempts
Language
Some
Moderate profanity
Sexual Content
Some
Reproductive medical ethics; non-consensual use of genetic material
Substance Use
Barely any
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Non-consensual use of egg donors' genetic material; violation of medical consent
What this book is about
A Robin Cook medical thriller (2001) in which two college women who donated eggs to pay tuition discover years later that a fertility clinic used their genetic material without proper consent — and the results are disturbing. The investigation into what happened to their eggs leads to corporate fraud and genetic research gone very wrong. Raises profound questions about medical consent.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Non-consensual medical procedures
Reproductive exploitation
Corporate conspiracy
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