This book draws on a wide range of fields, theories and thinkers to provide a complete introduction to the study of gender. Each entry presents a critical definition of its subjects, examining origins, usage and major contributors. Presented in A-Z format, it explores those term…
Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation & mdash;these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to…
Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation & mdash;these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to…
Management of infertility: a practical approach
Management of Infertility: A Practical Approach offers an accurate and complete reference for the management of infertility and a robust step-by-step guide for assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs), including how to plan, design and organize a clinical setting and laboratory…
Management of infertility: a practical approach
Management of infertility: a practical approach
Advances in assisted reproductive technology are producing a new world whose boundaries and implications have yet to be fully explored and understood. New advances are announced and hit the headlines with dizzying regularity, triggering the hopes and aspirations of some, and the…
The dialectics of disruption: paradoxes of nature and professionalism in contemporary American childbearing / Caroline H. Bledsoe and Rachel Scherrer -- Designing a woman-centered health care approach to pregnancy loss: lessons from feminist models of childbirth / Linda Layne --…
Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; and miscommunications between pregnant women and their gen…