Infertility : new choices, new dilemmas
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Infertility : new choices, new dilemmas
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 1995
Available at 2 libraries
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book describes the historical, psychological background to human infertility and the methods by which it can be diagnosed and treated. The main emphasis will be psychological and practical. Subject areas covered include treatment, new developments, what can go wrong, the success or failure of treatment, adoption and the possibility of life without children and the subject's ethical and legal implications. These are important areas to those concerned, whether they are parents, scientists, legislators, or the general public. About one in six couples have difficulty in having a child and the related issues of infertility, such as surrogacy, multiple births and homosexual parenting have attracted a great deal of media attention in recent years.
Table of Contents
- The reproductive revolution and one couple's story
- myths, motives and the new opportunities
- normal procreation
- the nature of infertility and its investigation
- infertility treatments - the first line
- the new reproductive technologies
- the outcomes of treatment
- multiple pregnancy
- embryo reduction of a multiple pregnancy - an insoluble dilemma?
- adoption as an alternative
- the family that never was - coping with childlessness
- new treatments and new moral dilemmas
- current controversies
- the debate about public provision for the infertile
- infertility treatment and the law
- priorities for research.
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