The Big Freeze is a work of nonfiction. Some names and identifying details have been changed.
Copyright © 2024 by Natalie Lampert
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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
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Hardback ISBN 9781524799380
Ebook ISBN 9781524799397
Book design by Jessica Shatan Heslin/Studio Shatan, Inc., adapted for ebook
Cover design: Rachel Ake
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Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
List of Abbreviations
Author’s Note
Introduction
Part I: The Consultation
1. Young, Fertile, and Fabulous
2. An Intimate Geography
3. Egg Freezing’s Rise
Part II: The Orientation
4. Hacking Our Hormones
5. Why Women Freeze
6. Optimizing Fertility
7. Not Our Bodies, Not Ourselves
Part III: The Stimulation
8. Ready, Set, Trigger Shot
9. The Femtech Revolution
10. Ovaries in Overdrive
Part IV: The Retrieval
11. Scar Tissue
12. Fertility-Industrial Complex
13. Great Eggspectations
Part V: The Freeze
14. Unviable
15. Reproduction Reimagined