Beyond Second Opinions Making Choices about Fertility Treatment

Name: Beyond Second Opinions Making Choices about Fertility Treatment
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ISBN: 9780520208544

ISBN-10: 0520208544

ISBN-13: 9780520208544

Edition: 1998

Authors: Judith Steinberg Turiel

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Beyond Second Opinions is both an exposeacute; of the risks, errors, and distortions surrounding fertility medicine and an authoritative guide for people seeking treatment. Accessible, comprehensive, and extremely well-informed, this book takes the reader beyond hype to the hard data on diagnoses and treatments. Judith Steinberg Turiel, a consumer health activist and herself a veteran of fertility treatments, uses the most up-to-date medical literature to shed new light on difficult decisions patients face today and on reproductive questions society must begin to address now. Those who are seeking a more balanced perspective to help them make better, more informed decisions will find a…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/29/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 419
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments



Facing Infertility: Into the Medical Realm



A Couple Decides: What Informed Patients Do and Do Not Learn



Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Modern Fact of Life



Experiments in Fertility: Mixed Results, Mixed Messages



Fertility Medicine's Older Woman



Of Mice and Men and, Especially, Women: Learning from Research Past, Present, and Future



How Is Consent Informed?



Protecting Patients: Work Enough for All



Finding What You Need


App. 1. Useful References and Resources



Finding and Using the Medical Literature



Elements of Informed Consent



Minimizing Fertility Problems



Doctors and Diagnoses


Glossary


Notes


Works Cited


Index