High-Tech Conception: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Consumers - Softcover

Kearney, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553378996 ISBN 13: 9780553378993

Verlag: Anchor Books, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

A consumer's guide for couples seeking fertility treatment assesses the risks, benefits, and safety latest techniques, drugs, and technology; describes the procedures involved in step-by-step detail; guides in choosing a fertility clinic and personnel; and more. Original.

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Americans want children but cannot conceive. One million couples seek infertility treatment every year, almost always without prior knowledge of the physical, emotional, and financial costs of high-tech conception (as a rule it is not covered by insurance), and without any way to judge the hard-sell come-ons of what is now a $2-billion, for-profit, unregulated industry that preys on their desperate hopes by promising outcomes that are all too rarely successful. This authoritative, lucid, balanced, and forthright book describes the very latest information on high-tech conception, with information on techniques of fertilization, the latest research, and the nature and risks of the potent drugs used to assist in fertilization and implantation. Its goal is to help infertile individuals become informed consumers by describing the different procedures, and showing them how to interpret and compare clinics' claimed success rates; examine the factors that affect success; critically assess the safety of the d

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Anchor Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0553378996
• ISBN 13: 9780553378993
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 359
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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