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Autore: |
Fauser Bart
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Titolo: |
Baby-making in the new millennium [[electronic resource] ] : [what the new reproductive treatments mean for families and society] / / Bart Fauser and Paul Devroey with Simon Brown
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.19817806 |
Soggetto topico: | Human reproductive technology - Forecasting |
Human reproduction - History | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
DevroeyPaul
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; 1 How to Design a Baby; 2 What Couples Want and How We Deal With It; 3 The Infertility Epidemic; 4 The Right Treatment for the Right Patient; 5 In Search of the Embryo Guaranteed to Implant; 6 Infertility Treatments for Fertile People; 7 Who Pays? The Social Implications; 8 How Far Can We Go?; Postscript; Postscript; Eight Chapters in a Nutshell; Glossary of terms; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; X |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Baby-making in the new millennium ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-34874-8 |
9786613348746 | |
0-19-162813-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910457786403321 |
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