Life in a Test-Tube: Medical and Ethical Issues Facing Society Today is a 1982 book authored by Daniel Ch. Overduin and John I. Fleming. It provides a critical analysis of the moral, ethical, and legal dilemmas arising from advancements in medical science, particularly focusing on reproductive technology, artificial conception, and the status of the human embryo. The ethical implications of test-tube babies (IVF) and the rapid, often uncontrolled, developments in biotechnology.The work analyzes how modern medical interventions are changing the structure of society and challenging traditional ethical norms in medicine. The book is often cited in discussions regarding the history of bioethics, particularly concerning the ethical debates surrounding human embryo experimentation in the 1980s.