Infertility in the Modern World: Present and Future ProspectsGillian R. Bentley, C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor Cambridge University Press, 30 nov 2000 - 264 páginas As we enter the twenty-first century, a number of medical, environmental, and social changes have profoundly affected human reproduction. This book discusses some of the more dramatic changes in an accessible manner, illustrating the ways in which human biology and culture can affect fertility. It provides a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the subject. Topics of discussion include medical technological advances that equip us with potential cures for many causes of infertility; diseases, such as AIDS, that have a devastating impact on the reproductive and social lives of humans; increasing industrialization and the development of fabricated materials that pollute our environment in unforeseen ways with possibly devastating effects on human health and fertility; and social revolutions that profoundly alter human relationships, such as nonmarital unions between heterosexual couples, same-sex relationships, and adoption and surrogacy. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
Biomedical perspectives on fertility | 15 |
Reproductive possibilities for infertile couples present and future | 17 |
Introduction | 18 |
Ovarian stimulation | 20 |
In vitro fertilization IVFintracytoplasmic sperm injection 1CSI | 23 |
Immature sperm conception | 25 |
Egg donation and surrogacy | 28 |
Other male reproductive health problems | 126 |
Xenoestrogens and female reproductive health | 132 |
Human fertility | 134 |
Conclusion | 135 |
Acknowledgements | 137 |
From STD epidemics to AIDS a socio demographic and epidemiological perspective on subSaharan Africa | 153 |
The social and historical context | 156 |
Sterility | 161 |
Embryo culture | 30 |
Assisted hatching | 31 |
Cryopreservation | 32 |
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis PGD | 34 |
Cytoplasmic donation and mitochondrial DNA mDNA transfer | 37 |
Fertility preservation | 39 |
Conclusion | 41 |
Genetic influences on human infertility | 46 |
Introduction | 47 |
Infertility due to maternalfetal red cell compatibility | 49 |
Infertility associated with maternal fetal HLA comp atibility | 51 |
Specific genetic disorders causing primary infertility | 53 |
Treatment of individuals with genetically determined infertility | 64 |
Conclusions | 69 |
Acknowledgements | 72 |
References | 73 |
Environmental influences on fertility | 83 |
Environmental pollutants and fertility | 85 |
Introduction | 86 |
Xenobiotics | 87 |
wildlife studies | 96 |
observations on humans | 101 |
Decreasing sperm counts in humans | 104 |
AIDS and infertility | 172 |
Tackling the epidemics | 178 |
Acknowledgements | 180 |
Social perspectives on infertility | 187 |
Voluntary childlessness trends and implications | 189 |
Demographic trends in childlessness in Britain | 191 |
childlessness in other industrialized countries | 195 |
Factors associated with childlessness | 198 |
Defining voluntary childlessness | 201 |
summary of the qualitative study | 205 |
Values and childlessness | 224 |
Policy implications and conclusions | 229 |
References | 234 |
Sexual orientation and fertility | 238 |
Introduction | 239 |
Early estimates of the numbers of lesbian mothers gay fathers and their children | 241 |
Recent estimates of the numbers of lesbian mothers gay fathers and their children | 245 |
Estimates based on the National Health and Social Life Survey | 248 |
Conclusions | 256 |
References | 259 |
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