Human Artificial Insemination and Semen Preservation

Even though artificial insemination is a simple technique that has been practiced for over a century, it has long been carried out under poor conditions due to an inadequate understanding of repro­ ductive physiology and antagonistic socio-ethical attitudes. Accor­ dingly, until fairly recently it was a medical act with a limited scientific basis which was practised more or less clandestinely. The...