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Sex In The Future: The Reproductive Revolution and How it Will Change Us
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. 2001; US$ 3.99Provocative and often shocking, Sex in the Future examines how advances in reproductive technology will change human behavior. In-vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood could mean the end not only of infertility but also of the need for men and women to form relationships or for women to interrupt careers for pregnancy. Sperm and egg storage... more...
The Elusive Embryo
University of California Press 2000; US$ 12.95In the first book to examine the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, Gay Becker scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll--both financial and emotional--that the quest for a biological child often exacts from would-be parents. more...
IVF & Everafter
Rockpool Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99IVF and Ever After focuses on IVF treatment, its effects on families and relationships, and how to minimize the stress it causes. A groundbreaking work ? no other book deals with the emotional experiences involved in IVF treatment and bringing up an IVF child. ? IVF clinics are overflowing with new patients and have little room for the ?personal... more...
Quality Management in ART Clinics
Springer 2012; US$ 149.99In the last decades, major advances have been made in assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and the public demand for these procedures has increased globally. All ART clinics, from those just starting out to the well established, must employ the latest equipment and implement the best practices, while ensuring that their resources are effectively... more...
Kin, Gene, Community
Berghahn Books 2011; US$ 95.00Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition... more...
Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes
Berghahn Books 2011; US$ 85.00Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This volume explores the application and impact of these advanced... more...
Comparative Biomedical Policy
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 145.00This book presents a comparative study examining assisted reproductive technology policies in North America and Europe. Based on original and detailed research, this up-to-date volume establishes a knowledge base for understanding policy debates on topics such as embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning. more...
Third Party Assisted Conception Across Cultures
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2003; US$ 38.95This is a comprehensive guide to the place of third party assisted conception within health care provision, drawing on ethical and religious standpoints as well as political and economic factors. Blyth and Landau have brought together contributors to consider the social, legal and ethical aspects of assisted conception in thirteen countries. more...
Beginning Life
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00Examines the medical innovations that have created new lives and saved others, including in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and stem cell and therapeutic cloning, and explains the ethical implications of these advancements. more...
Conceiving Kinship
Berghahn Books 2011; US$ 80.00Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was considered the 'Wild-West' of assisted conception. This... more...









