Baby-Making: What the new reproductive treatments mean for families and society

Author:   Bart Fauser (University Medical Center, Utrecht) ,  Paul Devroey (The Free University of Brussels)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199597314


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   27 October 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Bart Fauser (University Medical Center, Utrecht) ,  Paul Devroey (The Free University of Brussels)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780199597314


ISBN 10:   0199597316
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   27 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: How can we design babies? 2: Why would anyone want to design a baby? 3: The infertility epidemic 4: IVF treatments for infertility 5: Egg, sperm and embryo donation 6: Fertility treatments in fertile patients 7: Who should pay? Fertility as a lifestyle choice, infertility as a social problem

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I can strongly recommend it as a most readable introduction New Scientist


I can strongly recommend it as a most readable introduction * New Scientist * [An] eloquently written guide...[Fauser and Devroey provide much food for thought. * Booklist *


<br> A fascinating and passionate look at fertility around the world from a doctor's-eye view. <br>--<br>ibrary Journal<p><br>


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Professor Bart Fauser is Chair of the Departments of Reproduction and Gynecology, Obstretrics, Neonatology, and PsychoNeuroImmunology at the University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. As a reprodutive endocrinologist, he is the author of around 350 chapters of textbooks and scientific papers. From 2000 to 2006 he was Editor-in-Chief of the world's leading Obstetrics and Gynaecological journal (published by OUP), Human Reproduction Update. Professor Paul Devroey is Clinical Director of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine at the Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels. He is the author of three books and almost 400 scientific papers. He is an associate editor of several medical journals and from 2005 to 2007 was Chairman of ESHRE (the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology). It was Devroey's group in Brussels which pioneered the first male infertility treatment of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), now the world's most widely used IVF technique.

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