Human reproduction, growth and development

How do rapid social and technological changes shape reproductive realms today?

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine examines women's graphic memoirs on infertility, foregrounding the complex interrelationship between women's life writing, infertility studies, and graphic medicine.

The book elucidates a practical method for prenatal screening and detecting Down syndrome in a simple and easy-to-understand language.

Gain a solid understanding of how to treat infertility with Chinese medicineWritten by experts in Chinese medicine, this textbook provides a comprehensive overview of Chinese medicine therapies for fertility disorders.

Understand the menopause with all its changes and challenges and choose practices and treatments, brought to you by a team of experts, to make this next stage in your wellness journey healthy and positive.

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This important and exciting atlas shows with unprecedented resolution the development of the human embryo from fertilization to the end of pre-implantation development.

This extensively updated and revised edition of In Vitro Fertilization: The A.

This volume represents an up-to-date overview on pre-Menopause and Menopause, with their respective clinical implications and therapies.

Originally published in 1997 Evolutionary Change addresses the somatic mechanism of change.

Research on testosterone is increasing in many senses; however there is still much controversy regarding its physiology and clinical use.

This text offers an up-to-date, evidence-based overview of a challenging disease, which affects one in ten women and is often compounded by delayed diagnosis and significant impact on quality of life.

An ultrasound imaging guide for use in assisted reproduction, heavily illustrated, with practical tips for obtaining high-quality images.

This book provides insight into the transformative impact of data-driven approaches on reproductive health.

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers.

Sperm DNA damage is common and has been associated with reduced rates of conception, impaired embryonic development and increased risk of miscarriage.

This is the first book explaining the current development of an artificial womb which in future will be able to save lives of extremely premature infants.

In the vast majority of books discussing reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI), the contents are organized and classified by organs and systems.

'I believe it is an ethical imperative for all clinicians who treat women in menopause or women with breast cancer to alert their patients to this book' Michael Baum, MD, Professor Emeritus of Surgery and visiting professor of Medical Humanities, University College London'A thorough, careful and unbiased assessment .

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.

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.

Reprogenetic technologies, which combine the power of reproductive techniques with the tools of genetic science and technology, promise prospective parents a remarkable degree of control to pick and choose the likely characteristics of their offspring.

'With so much unregulated online information and apps on fertility awareness, not to mention unscientific myths that circulate in our culture, this book is a vital and precious resource.

This unique compilation focuses on a very curious organ, the ovary.

Creatine and Creatine Phosphate: Scientific and Clinical Perspectives is an up-to-date summary of both the scientific and medical aspects of creatine and creatine phosphate metabolism and therapy.

This book analyzes the basic science and treatment of male factor infertility with Dr.

Penile implants have been an effective treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED) for more than 40 years.

This book discusses many aspects of fetuses and motherhood from fields as wide as sociology and medicine.

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ORGANIZED MIND 'Everyone we know needs this remarkable book .

Collection of practical articles on cutting-edge topics, reviewing clinical information and looking ahead to practice over the next five years.

As an objective of human security, it is important to understand the social system and to make more appropriate policies for people based on the bio-psycho-social viewpoint of health advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Understanding immunology is increasingly important in obstetrics and gynecology.

This textbook presents essential and accessible information about human embryology including practical information on human health issues and recent advances in human reproductive technology.

Practical, evidence-based review of all factors that can affect the endometrium and influence implantation success rates.

Get Through MRCOG Part 1, Second Edition, provides a selection of questions covering the basic and applied sciences relevant to the clinical practice of obstetrics and gynaecology and mapped to the RCOG Knowledge Areas in the MCQ style.

Cultural Responsiveness in Assisted Reproductive Technology discusses best practices for creating an ART practice that is welcoming to and responsive to the unique needs of patients from a variety of racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.

Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England.

This book provides a resource of current understandings about various aspects of the biology of spermatogonia in mammals.

This book is a critical analysis of the technologies of identity-formation in governmental family planning policy.

Adoption is practiced globally yielding a multidimensional area of study that cannot be characterized by a single movement or discipline.

Reproductive technologies to assist in both human conception and animal breeding are increasingly in demand.

This is a complete, medically reliable dictionary of congenital malformations and disorders.

Infertility can make women - and their partners - feel completely powerless.

Now in a revised and expandedsecond edition, this comprehensive clinical guide remains a state-of-the-art synthesis of the literature, covering all aspects of treatingerectile dysfunction (ED) and other related male sexual dysfunctions.

Comprised of clinical cases presenting diverse clinical scenarios of uterine fibroids, this concise, practical casebook will provide clinicians in reproductive medicine and obstetrics/gynecology with the best real-world strategies to properly diagnose and treat the various presentations of fibroids they may encounter in daily clinical practice.

Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective presents the noted research in the fields of psychology, gerontology, and gender studies, reflecting the increasingly popular and pervasive positive aging issues of women in today's society from different cohorts, backgrounds, and life situations.

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