Reproductive Medicine category: 171 books
by Linda D. Applegarth, Doctor Robert D. Oates, Doctor Peter N. Schlegel
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Men with cancer rendered infertile by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and hormone therapy that are needed to control or cure their disease are increasingly being offered the chance to preserve their reproductive potential through artificial reproductive technologies. Cryopreservation of sperm and...
Reproductive Disruptions
Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA)
Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people’s lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists...
Handbook of Gestational Surrogacy
International Clinical Practice and Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
There is an increasing demand for gestational surrogacy in current reproductive medicine practice. Infertile couples often engage overseas surrogates, which increases the risk for legal and ethical complications. This book provides clinical guidance on the provision of gestational surrogacy on a worldwide...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
The specialty of fertility preservation offers patients with cancer, who are rendered infertile by chemo- and radiotherapy, the opportunity to realize their reproductive potential. This gold-standard publication defines the specialty. The full range of techniques and scientific concepts is covered...
Handbook of New Genetic Diagnostic Technologies in Reproductive Medicine
Improving Patient Success Rates and Infant Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Different genetic diagnostic and treatment options are used worldwide to improve routine IVF procedures for the benefit of patients. This handbook updates the new genetic diagnostic technologies that have been translated to practice aiming to improve outcomes in the clinic and have a healthy baby...
Case Studies in Assisted Reproduction
Common and Uncommon Presentations
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Clinical case studies have long been recognized as a useful adjunct to problem-based learning and continuing professional development. They emphasize the need for clinical reasoning, integrative thinking, problem-solving, communication, teamwork and self-directed learning - all desirable generic skills...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care. Here, for the first time, Integrative Women's Health weaves together the best of conventional treatments with mind-body interventions, nutritional strategies, herbal therapies, dietary supplements, acupuncture,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology, Second Edition, is a comprehensive and authoritative resource that provides the latest literature on this complex subject with a primary focus on three core components—parent, placenta, and fetus—and the continuous changes that occur in each. Enriched...
Brown Bodies, White Babies
The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between...
Unmet Need and Reproductive Health
Correlates and Determinants
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The concept of unmet need points to the gap between women's reproductive intensions and their contraceptive behaviour. In doing so it poses a challenge to the reproductive health and family planning programme to reach and serve the millions of women whose reproductive attitude resemble those of contraceptive...
Infant Gender Selection & Personalized Medicine
Consumer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Personalized medicine is what this book is about-tailoring your lifestyle, food, medicines, treatments, and reproductive choices to your genetic signature. According to Dr. Andrew Y. Silverman, MD, PhD, "The desire to influence the sex of the next child is probably as old as recorded history."
"Gender...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
It is estimated that more than 4.5 million couples experience infertility each year, and more than 4 million babies have been born using IVF since 1978. However, assisted reproductive technologies continue to raise many medical, social, ethical, political and religious questions, often leading to...
Sexplained One
Sex & Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Sexplained One — Sex & Your Health is essential reading for any professional working in the field of sexual health, as well as any parent or guardian of teenage children reaching their sexual maturity, and indeed for those young people themselves.
It is equally essential reading for adults...
Patient-Centred IVF
Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Contemporary Dutch policy and legislation facilitate the use of high quality, accessible and affordable assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) to all citizens in need of them, while at the same time setting some strict boundaries on their use in daily clinical practices. Through the ethnographic...