<![CDATA[
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>The miracles of assisted conception undergo a reality check by international experts<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566390606&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1033_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Tough Choices</h1>
<H2>In Vitro Fertilization and the Reproductive Technologies</H2>
<h3>edited by Patricia Stephenson and Marsden G. Wagner</h3>
<P>cloth 1-56639-060-5 $85.50, Oct 93, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT>
<BR> 192 pp
5.5x8.25
14 tables 7 figures
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"While policy makers are an important and appropriate audience for this book, anyone considering the possibility of IVF should also read the book, as should social scientists, ethicists, and others with an interest in medical technology and the ways in which it is developed and proliferates."</I>
<br>—<b>Judith N. Lasker</b>, Lehigh University<I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>In vitro fertilization (IVF), gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT), and other technologies of assisted conception have been heralded by the medical community and the media as "the answer" for infertile couples.
<p><I>Tough Choices</I> presents a forum of international voices posing critical questions:
<ul><li><p>What are the medical and social options for couples facing infertility?
<li><p>What is known about the safety, costs, and benefits of reproductive technologies?
<li><p>What is to be done about the diversion of resources away from pressing community health needs?</ul>
<p><I>Tough Choices</I> argues for a public health approach to infertility, maintaining that too little attention has been given to the social, ethical, and legal issues involved.
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Preface
<br>Introduction: Infertility and In Vitro Fertilization: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog? – Marsden G. Wagner and Patricia Stephenson
<p><b>Part I: Options for Infertile Men and Women</b>
<br>1. Medially Assisted Conception: The State of the Art in Clinical Practice – Joseph G. Schenker
<br>2. Social Alternatives to Infertility – Fran�oise Laborie
<p><b>Part II: Technology Assessment</b>
<br>3. Technology Assessment and Infertility Care – H. David Banta
<br>4. The Effectiveness of In Vitro Fertilization: An Epidemiological Perspective – Fiona J. Stanley and Sandra M. Webb
<br>5. The Financial Costs of In Vitro Fertilization: An Example from Australia – Ditta Bartels
<br>6. Health Services for Infertility: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis from the Netherlands – Ger Haan
<p><b>Part III: Risk Assessment</b>
<br>7. Ovulation Induction During Treatment of Infertility: An Assessment of the Risks – Patricia Stephenson
<br>8. Physiological and Psychosocial Risks of the New Reproductive Technologies – Lene Koch
<br>9. The Neonatologist's Experience of In Vitro Fertilization Risks – Jean-Pierre Relier, Michele Couchard, and Catherine Houn
<p><b>Part IV: Law and Ethics</b>
<br>10. Some Legal Aspects of Modern Reproductive Technology – Sheila A.M. McLean
<br>11. Equity and Resource Distribution in Infertility Care – Per-Gunnar Svensson and Patricia Stephenson
<p>About the Contributors
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Patricia Stephenson</b> is Senior Researcher at the <I>Centrum for folkhalsoforskning</I> in Sweden.</P>
<P><b>Marsden G. Wagner</b> is Regional Officer (retired) for Maternal and Child Health for the World Health Organization's European regional office.</P>
<P>Contributors: Joseph G. Schenker, Fran�oise Laborie, H. David Banta, Fiona J. Stanley, Sandra M. Webb, Ditta Bartels, Ger Haan, Lene Koch, Jean-Pierre Relier, Michele Couchard, Catherine Huon, Sheila A.M. McLean, Per Gunnar Svensson, and the editors.</P>
<BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2>
<p><A HREF="/tempress/health.html" TARGET="_top">Health and Health Policy</a>
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<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/health_society.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Health, Society, and Policy</a></i>, edited by Sheryl Ruzek and Irving Kenneth Zola.
</p><p>No longer active.<p><i>Health, Society and Policy</i>, edited by Sheryl Ruzek and Irving Kenneth Zola, takes a critical stance with regard to health policy and medical practice, ranging broadly in subject matter. Backlist titles include books on the legal and professional status of midwifery, the experience and regulation of kidney transplants, the evolution of federal law on architectural access, and a political/ethical argument for making the community responsible for universal access to health care.</p>
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