Taking Baby Steps
How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Health & Well Being, Health
| Author: | Jody Lyneé Madeira | ISBN: | 9780520966314 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press | Publication: | December 15, 2017 |
| Imprint: | University of California Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jody Lyneé Madeira |
| ISBN: | 9780520966314 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Publication: | December 15, 2017 |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Language: | English |
In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals and confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates how women, men, and medical professionals negotiate infertility’s rocky terrain to create life and build families—a journey across personal, medical, legal, and ethical minefields that can test mental and physical health, friendships and marriages, spirituality, and financial security.
In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals and confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates how women, men, and medical professionals negotiate infertility’s rocky terrain to create life and build families—a journey across personal, medical, legal, and ethical minefields that can test mental and physical health, friendships and marriages, spirituality, and financial security.
