Healing the Infertile Family – Strengthening Your Relationship in the Search for Parenthood - Softcover

Becker, Gay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520211804 ISBN 13: 9780520211803

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

Unlike most fertility books that focus on medical treatment, "Healing the Infertile" examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couples experiencing infertility and offers guidlines for resolution of this common problem that will enable couples to face the future with hope.

About this title

Review:

"By addressing such fundamental issues as the meaning of family and the unfolding of gender differences, Becker allows the reader to examine the deep issues underlying the desire for children."--Patricia Honea-Fleming, "National Resolve Newsletter

About the Author:

Gay Becker is Professor of Medical Anthropology, and Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Growing Old in Silence (1980) and Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World, (California, forthcoming).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520211804
• ISBN 13: 9780520211803
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364