In Search of Parenthood: Coping With Infertility and High-Tech Conception - Hardcover

Borg, Susan; Lasker, Judith N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807027065 ISBN 13: 9780807027066

Publisher: Beacon Pr, 1987

Synopsis

A study of new alternatives to infertility discusses the new methods of conception as well as their personal, medical, legal, and economic implications

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Review

"Anyone considering a new method of conception or struggling to resolve infertility should read this book. The authors point to the need for more public discussion of infertility and more social support groups for the infertile. Reading and discussing this book is a first step. It is also an excellent supplementary text for courses in human sexuality, sex and gender roles, women and society, or medical ethics, and is guaranteed to provoke lively class discussion." --Contemporary Sociology "This book will be useful for several audiences. Infertile women and men considering the new reproductive technologies will find this book an invaluable resource. Health professionals working with infertility patients will find that the book offers helpful insights into the experiences and concerns of their clients. Finally, researchers studying infertility will find this book to be a rich source of interesting hypotheses." --Contemporary Psychology "Lasker and Borg present a thoughtful and sensitive examination of the world of the new reproductive technologies. Most importantly, they offer us the voices of the women and men who have been there: in infertility clinics, in in vitro programs, in so-called 'surrogacy' contracts. They share with us the success and failure, joy and grief of our brave new world of reproduction." --Barbara Katz Rothman, author of The Tentative Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis and the Future of Motherhood

About the Author

Judith N. Lasker is a Professor I the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Beacon Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807027065
• ISBN 13: 9780807027066
• Binding: Hardcover