Taking Baby Steps : How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception / Jody Lyneé Madeira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madeira, Jody Lyneé, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conception.

Human reproductive technology.

Patient education.

Infertility--Psychological aspects.

Infertility.

Infertility--Alternative treatment.

Fertility clinics--Evaluation.

Fertility clinics.

Infertility--Patients--Counseling of--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals and 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part One. Infertility as an Emotional Experience

1. Consent and Sensibility: Emotions, Decision Making, and Informed Consent in Reproductive Medicine

2. "The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants": Patients' and Providers' Reflections on Desperation

3. Conceptive Catch-22s: The Benefits and Burdens of Infertility Emotions

Part Two. (Re)productive Treatment Relationships: From Choosing a Provider to Collaborating in Conception

4. Off to See the Wizard: On the Road to Treatment

5. Being Patient: Patients' Perspectives on Treatment Relationships

6. Doctoring Hope: Providers' Perspectives on Treatment Relationships

Part Three. Documenting the Informed Consent Experience

7. Is Informed Consent in Reproductive Medicine in Critical Condition?

8. Filling in the Blanks: How Patients and Providers Experience Informed Consent

9. For Forms' Sake: Comparing IVF and Embryo Disposition Forms

Conclusion: Thinking outside the Signature Box

Appendix: Methodology

Notes

Glossary of Common Fertility Terms

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520966314

0520966317

OCLC:

994206131