This is a forward-looking clinical reference of definitive authority on today's headline controversies surrounding in vitro fertilization (IVF) and reproductive genetics. Written by leading experts from medicine, education, psychology, ethics, counseling, and other disciplines studying fertility and genetics, the book contains nearly 70 chapters in seven sections. The introductory section deals with biology, business, morality and society in IVF and reproductive genetics; other sections focus on IVF outcomes, personal ethics and business, biology of the egg, sperm and embryo, implantation, IVF and society, and such 21st century topics as space travel and human reproduction, the disappearing male,and the future of motherhood. Includes bibliographic references and index.
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Section 1 - Introduction: IVF and reproductive genetics in 1999: biology, business, ethics and sociology. Fertility in Aboriginality. Section 2 - IVF outcomes, personal ethics and business: Psychosocial effects of infertility and age on women.Psychosocial impact of infertility on men. Protecting the vulnerable in collaborative reproduction How should IVF success rates be reported IVF success rate reporting: consumer needs. IVF babies are not small. Outcomes from intracytoplasmic sperminjection. Follow-up of IVF families. Multiple births - too high a price The emotional pitfalls of multiple pregnancy. IVF families and embryo storage. Breast, ovarian and uterine cancer in 29 700 Australian IVF patients. Still not maternal: giving birthto my niece (10 years on). Infertile mothers: a perspective from research and experience. My mothers and my mum. Gestational surrogacy is an integral part of IVF: a 10-year report. A decade of gestational carrier pregnancy. Egg donation: the lessons fromcommercial activities. What motivates paid ovum donors Donor insemination: which families tell Sperm donation: the donor's right to know. Section 3 - Biology of the egg: Frozen banking of follicles. Requirements for oocyte development. FSH andfollicular development. Follicular stimulation for IVF: should GnRH agonists be our first choice Minimal ovarian stimulation for IVF: extending the 'follicle stimulating hormone window'. Recombinant FSH therapy alone versus combination therapy withrecombinant LH therapy in patients down-regulated with a low-dose luteal GnRH agonist protocol: preliminary results. Follicular stimulation regimens for IVF: dealing with temporary ovarian resistance. Clinical experience with in vitro oocyte maturation.Complete oogenesis does not occur without follicle formation: an in vitro study of fetal mouse ovaries. Oocyte contributions to embryogenesis in mammals. Genetics of the fertilizing egg. Karl Ernst von Baer and the discovery of the human ovum. Section 4 -Biology of the sperm: Secular changes in male reproductive health. Reproductive toxins affecting the male. Ejaculatory and erectile dysfunctions in infertile men. Sperm retrieval techniques: opportunities and risks. Sperm cell aneuploidy. Y chromosome andsingle gene defects causing male infertility. Alterations and damage of sperm chromatin structure and early embryonic failure. Section 5 - Biology of the embryo and implantation: Transmission of the mitochondrial genome. Cytoplasmic endowment oforganelles other than mitochondria. Embryo metabolism. Stage-specific culture media and reactions of embryos to them. In vitro culture of human blastocysts. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis: a 10-year perspective. Clinical experience of a preimplantationgenetic diagnosis at Hammersmith 1989-1998. The receptive endometrium. Is the success of human IVF a matter of developmental biology Quality management in the IVF laboratory. Section 6 - IVF and society: Cultural expectations from
