Product Description: The Business of Being Made is the first book to critically analyze assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) from a transdisciplinary perspective integrating psychoanalytic and cultural theories. It is a ground-breaking collection exploring ARTs through diverse methods including interview research, clinical case studies, psychoanalytic based ethnography, and memoir...read more

The best-selling devotional of all time from Oswald Chambers becomes a daily guide with this handy vest pocket edition.

Product Description: This book contributes in an important way to the psychoanalytic understanding and impact of Assisted Reproductive Technology on a majority of patients who have difficulties starting new families. Recent advances in reproductive technology and the increased use of techniques based upon it have created a need for psychoanalytic thinking and understanding of the psychological implications of assisted reproductive procedures, in-vitro fertilization and other similar procedures...read more

Product Description: The wish for a child runs deep, as does the desire for parenthood. It is a wish that is essential to the continuance of the human species. It derives its motive power from many interrelated sources: psychobiological, sociological, historical...read more

Product Description: If you need help having a baby, reproductive technology can supply the answer. But it also raises a host of questions that won’t arise until after the child is born: What will you say to “Where did I come from?” when the answer includes a donor or surrogate? Will knowing the truth about how you conceived make your child love you less? Will having a baby with someone else strain your relationship with your spouse or partner? What will grandparents, family members, friends, and coworkers think? Dr...read more

Product Description: It is over two decades since the first test-tube baby was born. During this period a new belief that all infertile women can now have babies has become widely accepted; indeed, infertile couples may feel great pressure to seek a medical solution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the challenges brought by new reproductive technology

Product Description: Judith N. Lasker is a Professor of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University. Susan Borg is Director of the Department of Urban Planning and Development, West Orange, New Jersey. Together they have also authored "When Pregnancy Fails: Families Coping with Miscarriage, Ectopic Pregnancy, Stillbirth and Infant Death...read more

Product Description: "A remarkable collection of scholarly essays, philosophical discussions, and ethical arguments concerning reproductive choices." —Choice It seems as if every week there is a new case involving reproductive technologies that raises provocative, often painful questions: What policies should be followed by centers that preserve human embryos? Are such innovations as Norplant improvements over established methods of contraception? Should R...read more

Product Description: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Reproductive technology, bright in the possibilities it makes available to infertile couples, also carries the uncertainty of long-term psychological, medical, sociological, legal, and ethical consequences. This volume brings together contributors from the diverse practice areas of law, obstetrics, psychiatry, and pediatrics to explore both the sublimity and the peril of these new technologies, and the effects they have had and may yet have on our society...read more