Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social, Emotional & Ethical Considerations

by Susan Lewis Cooper

Book Overview

Here, authors who have been involved in the support and education of infertile couples for many years, explore in compelling detail the medical, legal, ethical and psycholoical implications of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944934226
• ISBN13: 9780944934227
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Perspectives Press (IN)
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Don't start infertility treatment until you read this!

I can't believe that anyone let me start the process of infertility treatment (beyond the clomid stage) without telling me to read this. I found it on my own when having to decide whether my only chance to have a child, egg donation, was right for my husband and myself. I only WISH someone had told me about it sooner. It would have helped me think about all of "this" in a not so crazy way. It's technical, but, those of us who go through infertility procedures know more about the getting pregnant process than most books and online souces give us credit for. These authors treat us like intelligent human beings.

This is a wise book !

As an infertility specialist, I'd heartily recommend this book to all infertile couples - and their doctors as well. The forte of this book is the superb way in which emotional issues have been discussed.

expert guidance

My husband and I have been struggling with infertility for six years and have read several books on the subject. Choosing Assisted Reproduction is the most comprehensive, informative and challenging book that we have come across. We were both relieved to see that the authors raise some of the ethical questions that we are struggling with. They do so in a very sensitive way, always respecting the difficult choices that infertility patients face in this new world of baby making. I recommend this book to anyone going through infertility, as well as to their families and friends.

I could have lost my mind several times without this book

This compassionately written book has provided a constant reference and framework within which to think during the hugely emotional period of infertility. It has managed to normalise to some extent the weird world in which readers of this book dwell. It has contributed largely to my change of views on the right of the child to know its biological history. I would recommend it as essential reading for anyone going into third party parenting.

An outstanding book which helped us tremendously

"No other book on infertility was so helpful to my husband and me. We each read it and we discussed it together. We found the ethical discussions especially helpful and were so glad to finally find people willing to tackle them. We found the emotional discussions, especially about ending treatment and about third part alternatives, immensely helpful. This book is outstanding!"