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Item specifics
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- Book Title
- Baby-Making: What the New Reproductive Treatments Mean for Fam
- ISBN
- 9780199597314
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199597316
ISBN-13
9780199597314
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109285089
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Baby-Making : What the New Reproductive Treatments Mean for Families and Society
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Reproductive Medicine & Technology, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
17.4 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"A fascinating and passionate look at fertility around the world from a doctor's-eye view." --Library Journal"[An] eloquently written guide . . . [Fauser and Devroey] provide much food for thought." --ooklist"[A] succinct overview, fertility experts Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey cover techniques from cryopreservation of embryos to egg donation." --ature"Baby-Making by Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey brings a fresh and accessible perspective to this modern and progressive discipline . . . succinct and comprehensive." --NewScientist.com's CultureLab, "A fascinating and passionate look at fertility around the world from a doctor's-eye view." --Library Journal "[An] eloquently written guide . . . [Fauser and Devroey] provide much food for thought." --ooklist "[A] succinct overview, fertility experts Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey cover techniques from cryopreservation of embryos to egg donation." --ature "Baby-Makingby Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey brings a fresh and accessible perspective to this modern and progressive discipline . . . succinct and comprehensive." --NewScientist.com's CultureLab, "A fascinating and passionate look at fertility around the world from a doctor's-eye view." --Library Journal "[An] eloquently written guide . . . [Fauser and Devroey] provide much food for thought." --ooklist "[A] succinct overview, fertility experts Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey cover techniques from cryopreservation of embryos to egg donation." --ature "Baby-Making by Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey brings a fresh and accessible perspective to this modern and progressive discipline . . . succinct and comprehensive." --NewScientist.com's CultureLab, "A fascinating and passionate look at fertility around the world from a doctor's-eye view." -- ibrary Journal
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
1. How can we design babies?2. Why would anyone want to design a baby?3. The infertility epidemic4. IVF treatments for infertility5. Egg, sperm and embryo donation6. Fertility treatments in fertile patients7. Who should pay? Fertility as a lifestyle choice, infertility as a social problem
Synopsis
With the availability of contraception and fertility treatments now, the choices offered to couples in the 21st century in the developing world are significantly wider than ever before. Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey explore the new technologies for infertility treatment and consider the wider political and social questions that treatment raises., In the developing world, the choices available to couples for fertility treatments in the 21st century are wider than ever before. This is a time when most types of infertility can be treated by modern "test-tube" methods, yet reproduction itself has become inextricably bound with social and political trends - declining birth rates, delayed first pregnancy, childbirth beyond the age of 40, the state funding of infertility treatment - fertility treatment is a hot topic, high on the agenda of politicians in their efforts to reverse declining national fertility rates. The range of new technologies is expansive, from embryo selection by genetic analysis to egg donation in the over-forties and cryopreservation. Today, the "assistance" of conception with treatments such as IVF reflects a life-choice whose context is immediately social, cultural, personal, and political. Arguing that these new technologies allow the 'design' of babies in a way which is far beyond the spontaneity of nature, Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey describe the new treatments, consider what they can do, and look at how far they have come in shaping our everyday lives. Considering the wider implications of fertility treatment, they also look at the issues it raises, and evaluate how far treatments can, and should, go., In vitro fertilization and other forms of assisted reproduction are no longer experimental procedures. Indeed, in Denmark in 2004, 4% of all babies born were conceived by IVF. In the near future, every kindergarten classroom will quite possibly have at least one IVF child. In this fascinating account, two of the world's leading authorities present a detailed and readable account of assisted reproduction, describing how this technique is applied to help infertile couples have a baby. Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey describe the latest technologies, placing them in their scientific and clinical settings, outlining such procedures as IVF, sperm injection techniques, egg donation, fertility preservation, single embryo transfer, and reproductive surgery. Fauser and Devroey also discuss fertility treatments in patients who are not infertile (such as single women or lesbians). One of the great controversies swirling around assisted reproduction is the furor over "designer babies" (manipulating genetic material to produce babies with blue eyes or a high IQ, or of a particular sex), but the authors contend that the only acceptable aim in "designing" a baby is to insure a safe pregnancy and delivery. The book also reveals that a key challenge of fertility research is to perfect a treatment that avoids multiple pregnancy, a trend that has blighted IVF throughout its thirty-year history. Fauser and Devroey also discuss the issue of increasing age-related infertility ("the infertility epidemic") and the possible use of IVF to meet this challenge and improve birth rates. The final chapter looks to the future and proposes that the limits to assisted reproduction will be set more by ethical considerations than by scientific progress., In the developing world, the choices available to couples for fertility treatments in the 21st century are wider than ever before. This is a time when most types of infertility can be treated by modern 'test-tube' methods, yet reproduction itself has become inextricably bound with social and political trends - declining birth rates, delayed first pregnancy, childbirth beyond the age of 40, the state funding of infertility treatment - fertility treatment is a hot topic, high on the agenda of politicians in their efforts to reverse declining national fertility rates. The range of new technologies is expansive, from embryo selection by genetic analysis to egg donation in the over-forties and cryopreservation. Today, the 'assistance' of conception with treatments such as IVF reflects a life-choice whose context is immediately social, cultural, personal, and political. Arguing that these new technologies allow the 'design' of babies in a way which is far beyond the spontaneity of nature, Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey describe the new treatments, consider what they can do, and look at how far they have come in shaping our everyday lives. Considering the wider implications of fertility treatment, they also look at the issues it raises, and evaluate how far treatments can, and should, go.
LC Classification Number
RG133.5
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