Taking Baby Steps : How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception /

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"In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lynee Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions through forming treatment relationships with medical professionals to confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book inv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Madeira, Jody Lynee (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Patient education.
Infertility > Psychological aspects.
Infertility > Alternative treatment.
Human reproductive technology.
Conception.
Fertilization (Biology)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Fecondation.
Procreation medicalement assistee.
Éducation des patients.
Infertilite > Aspect psychologique.
Infertilite > Medecines paralleles.
Cliniques d'infertilite > Évaluation.
Infertilite > Patients > Counseling > Aspect moral.
Fertilization
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
Patient Education as Topic
Fertility clinics > Evaluation.
Infertility > Patients > Counseling of > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lynee Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions through forming treatment relationships with medical professionals to confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates how women, men, and medical professionals negotiate infertility's rocky terrain to create life and build families--a journey across personal, medical, legal, and ethical minefields that can test mental and physical health, friendships and marriages, spirituality, and financial security."--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9780520966314

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