In vitro fertilization (IVF), gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT), and other technologies of assisted conception have been heralded by the medical community and the media as "the answer" for infertile couples. "Tough Choices" presents a forum of international voices posing critical questions: What are the medical and social options for couples facing infertility? What is known about the safety, costs, and benefits of reproductive technologies? What is to be done about the diversion of resources away from pressing community health needs? "Tough Choices" argues for a public health approach to infertility, maintaining that too little attention has been given to the social, ethical, and legal issues involved. It includes an author note: Patricia Stephenson is Senior Researcher at the Centrum for folkhalsoforskning in Sweden. Marsden G. Wagner is Regional Officer (retired) for Maternal and Child Health for the World Health Organization's European regional office.
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"While policy makers are an important and appropriate audience for this book, anyone considering the possibility of IVF should also read the book, as should social scientists, ethicists, and others with an interest in medical technology and the ways in which it is developed and proliferates."
—Judith N. Lasker, Lehigh University
—Judith N. Lasker, Lehigh University
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The miracles of assisted conception undergo a reality check by international experts
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infertility treatment, medically assisted conception, infertility care, infertile people, heterotopic pregnancy, defined pregnancies, clomiphene citrate, ovulation induction, tubal surgery, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, gonadotropin therapy, voluntary childlessness, treatment cycles, ongoing pregnancy, infertility services, clinical pregnancies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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infertility treatment, medically assisted conception, infertility care, infertile people, heterotopic pregnancy, defined pregnancies, clomiphene citrate, ovulation induction, tubal surgery, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, gonadotropin therapy, voluntary childlessness, treatment cycles, ongoing pregnancy, infertility services, clinical pregnancies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fertil Steril, Obstet Gynecol, United States, New York, Acad Sci, National Perinatal Statistics Unit, Social Alternatives, United Kingdom, Reprod Med, Great Britain, The State of the Art, Cost Effectiveness Analysis, New Zealand, The Effectiveness of In Vitro Fertilization, Obstet Gynaecol, Contracept Fertil Sexual, American Fertility Society, Acta Eur Fertil, Dossier Fivnat, Med Ethics, World Survey, Centre Hospitalier de Bicetre, Reprod Fertil Browse Sample Pages:
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