Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception

Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception

Description

In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals and confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates how women, men, and medical professionals negotiate infertility’s rocky terrain to create life and build families—a journey across personal, medical, legal, and ethical minefields that can test mental and physical health, friendships and marriages, spirituality, and financial security.

ISBN

9780520293045 (hb), 9780520293052 (pb)

Publication Date

2017

Publisher

University of California Press

City

Berkeley, CA

Keywords

Infertility-Patients-Counseling of-Moral and ethical aspects, Fertility clinics-Evaluation, Infertility-Alternative treatment, Infertility-Psychological aspects, Patient education, Human reproductive technology, Conception

Disciplines

Law | Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility | Public Health | Women's Health

Comments

Complete bibliographic details available HERE

Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library, RC 889 .M33 2018

Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception

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