This book considers the growing popularity of solo motherhood via gamete donation and how this type of "e;cyborg conception"e; is narrated in medicine, bioethics, fiction, and memoir.
This book offers a historical perspective on the scientific milestones that have brought IVF to its current prominence and explores future directions based on ongoing research.
This book addresses the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), a new medical concept that demonstrates that various adult diseases start in the fetal period.
Since the first successful transfer of an in vitro fertilised human egg in 1976, modern endocrinology, genetics, and assisted reproductive technologies have opened new frontiers of research with the aim to treat infertile women.
The decade that has passed since publication of the second edition of this textbook has not only witnessed a tremendous increase in knowledge within the ?
Andrology for the Clinician consists of two parts: In Part One, the busy clinician can easily find the problem-orientated information he or she needs on such issues as male factor fertility problems, male contraception, and male genital tract infection and tumours.
By providing the background knowledge, the book empowers the obstetrician/gynecologist to be in the key coordinating role, and to communicate effectively with all parties and health workers involved in psychological care.
As perceptions of menopause have evolved, this new text examines what clinical problems can arise in treatment of patients experiencing menopause after cancer treatment.
As perceptions of menopause have evolved, this new text examines what clinical problems can arise in treatment of patients experiencing menopause after cancer treatment.
Beyond Second Opinions is both an expose of the risks, errors, and distortions surrounding fertility medicine and an authoritative guide for people seeking treatment.
Getting Pregnant in the 1980s: New Advances in Infertility Treatment and Sex Preselection provides a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving field of reproductive medicine during a transformative decade.
This thoroughly revised and updated reference addresses the drugs and chemicals causing malformations and congenital anomalies in the human fetus-comprehensively reviewing experimental studies in animals and clinical data on human development, primarily in the organogenesis period.
This Third Edition of Men's Health provides a comprehensive and authoritative reference source to urologists, andrologists, family practitioners, and all professionals dealing with the male patient who diagnose and treat males with a variety of health problems, such as prostate cancer, male osteoporosis, and testicular cancer.
The most profound dilemma in assisted reproduction to date is the inability to recognize potentially viable embryos before their replacement into the reproductive tract.
Endometriosis - a condition in which the lining of the uterus grows in other abdominal locations - is one of the most common causes of severe period pain, pelvic pain, and abnormal bleeding in women.
Meeting the needs of professionals in this growing specialty, Atlas of Reproductive Physiology in Men summarizes some of the latest research in the field.
