Acknowledgments

• Author: Maureen A. McTeer
• Pages: 11-12

Acknowledgments

spent

a

great deal longer writing this

book

than

I had

originally

planned. What started

as a

narrow legal text kept

growing

and

changing into

a

book

for

laypeople

and

lawyers alike.

I

was

particularly fortunate

in the

expert

advisers

who

helped

me in

my

research

and

answered

my

questions.

For

Part One, Conception,

I

am

grateful

to

three professionals

at the

Canadian Fertility

and

Andro-

logy

Society:

Dr.

Arthur Leader, professor

of

medicine

at the

University

of

Ottawa, and,

in

1999, president

of the

society; Susan

Orr-Mongeau,

executive director;

and Dr.

Paul Claman, national director

and an

infer-

tility

specialist

at the

fertility

clinic

at the

Ottawa

Civic

Hospital.

For

Part

Two,

Commercialization,

Dr.

Daniel

Drell

in the

Life

Sciences Division

of

the

Office

of

Biological

and

Environmental Research

at the

U.S.

Department

of

Energy provided

me

with American materials relating

to

the

Human Genome Project

and

genetic testing. Charles Black,

the

senior

adviser

of the

Canadian

Life

and

Health Insurance Association,

gave

careful

and

complete

answers

to my

questions about that industry

and

genetic

testing.

For

Part Three, Consent, Andre

LaPrairie,

the

expert

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