Reproductive Medicine category: 171 books
Technologies of Life and Death
From Cloning to Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The central aim of this book is to approach contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death as ethical issues that call for a more nuanced approach than mainstream philosophy can provide. To do so, it draws on the recently published seminars of Jacques Derrida to analyze the extremes...
Biological Relatives
IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed...
Baby-Making
What the new reproductive treatments mean for families and society
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
In the developing world, the choices available to couples for fertility treatments in the 21st century are wider than ever before. This is a time when most types of infertility can be treated by modern 'test-tube' methods, yet reproduction itself has become inextricably bound with social and political...
The Politics of Pregnancy
Policy Dilemmas in the Maternal-Fetal Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Here is a comprehensive overview and analysis of issues concerning the maternal-fetal relationship, from abortion to surrogate motherhood. Unlike many books which cover reproductive issues in general, this book focuses in-depth on one aspect of reproduction--the maternal-fetal relationship--to give...
The Match
Savior Siblings and One Family's Battle to Heal Their Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
My Sister’s Keeper in nonfiction: a family’s real-life struggle to cure their daughter by creating her genetic match
Katie Trebing was diagnosed at three months oldwith Diamond Blackfan anemia, a rare form of anemia that prevents bone marrow from producing red blood cells. Even with a lifetime...
Surrogacy
A Human Rights Violation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Pared down to cold hard facts, surrogacy is the commissioning/buying/ renting of a woman into whose womb an embryo is inserted and who thus becomes a 'breeder' for a third party. Surrogacy is heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry which seeks new markets for women over 40, and gay men who...
by Kay Elder, Brian Dale, Yves Ménézo
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
This fully updated new edition of a successful and popular practical guide is an indispensable account of modern in-vitro fertilization practice. Initial chapters cover theoretical aspects of gametogenesis and embryo development at the cellular and molecular level, while the latter half of the book...
Overcoming Infertility
A Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Confronting a problem that affects one out of 10 American couples, this all-inclusive, question-and-answer guide offers insight and encouragement in the face of infertility. Addressing the deep disappointment and emotional distress that accompany a diagnosis, this resource emphasizes that there is...
Abortion in Asia
Local Dilemmas, Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction. Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection presents case studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The oocyte is the largest and most mysterious cell in the body of mammalian organisms. Through its growth and maturation, it reaches extreme levels of specialization, while maintaining at the same time a condition of totipotency. Its unique ability, in co-operation with the spermatozoon, to give rise...
by Rajasingam Sivaperagasm Jeyendran
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
Semen analysis can be a confusing, intimidating procedure. Patient Guide to Semen Analysis is a guidebook expressly written for male fertility patients undergoing testing.
Presented in an easy to read "Question & Answer" format, the text covers everything from the procedure itself,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The new edition of this text admirably fills the need for a primer on the central topics involved in Human In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Supplying a comprehensive and hands-on approach to IVF, this source presents established state-of-the-art procedures and techniques, as well as the most current...
Infertility Counseling
A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2006
Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians, 2nd edition, is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary textbook for all health professionals providing care for individuals facing reproductive health issues. It is the most thorough and extensive book currently available for clinicians...
by György Siklósi
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This book is the first to explain fully the crucial role of folliculo-luteal function in recurrent miscarriage, unexplained infertility, preterm birth, intrauterine growth retardation, preeclampsia, random chromosomal abnormalities, and age-related reproductive disorders. In addition it describes...