Taking baby steps : how patients and fertility clinics collaborate in conception /
Madeira, Jody Lyneé,
Taking baby steps : how patients and fertility clinics collaborate in conception / Jody Lyneé Madeira. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Infertility as an emotional experience -- (Re)Productive treatment relationships : from choosing a provider to collaborating in conception -- Documenting the informed consent experience -- Conclusion : thinking outside the signature box.
"In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé 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.
9780520966314
2017033914
Infertility--Patients--Counseling of--Moral and ethical aspects.
Fertility clinics--Evaluation.
Infertility--Alternative treatment.
Infertility--Psychological aspects.
Patient education.
Human reproductive technology.
Conception.
Electronic Books.
RC889 / .T355 2018
Taking baby steps : how patients and fertility clinics collaborate in conception / Jody Lyneé Madeira. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Infertility as an emotional experience -- (Re)Productive treatment relationships : from choosing a provider to collaborating in conception -- Documenting the informed consent experience -- Conclusion : thinking outside the signature box.
"In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé 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.
9780520966314
2017033914
Infertility--Patients--Counseling of--Moral and ethical aspects.
Fertility clinics--Evaluation.
Infertility--Alternative treatment.
Infertility--Psychological aspects.
Patient education.
Human reproductive technology.
Conception.
Electronic Books.
RC889 / .T355 2018