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Turiel, Judith Steinberg

 
9780520208544: Beyond Second Opinions: Making Choices About Fertility Treatment
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520208544 ISBN 13 : 9780520208544
Editeur : University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

This text is both an expose of the risks, errors, and distortions surrounding fertility medicine and an authoritative guide for people seeking treatment. The book takes the reader beyond hype to hard data on diagnoses and treatments. Judith Steinberg Turiel, a consumer health activist and herself a veteran of fertility treatments, uses the most up-to-date medical literature to shed new light on difficult decisions patients face today and on reproductuve questions society must begin to address now. Those who are seeking a more balanced perspective to help them make better, more informed decisions will find information about current reproductive interventions - from simple fertility pills to dazzling experimental options - as well as a discussion of the non-medical forces (economic and political) that shape an individual's treatment choices and reproductive choices. Despite quantities of information showered upon patients, they remain woefully misinformed; some fertility treatments may actually reduce chances for a successful pregnancy and trheaten a patient's health. Turiel looks beyond surface claims to the real information, often uncovering counterintuitive findings and sometimes scandalous revelations. She exposes a realm of unregulated expansion, unscientific experimentation, and scandal over stolen embryos.

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À propos de l'auteur

Judith Steinberg Turiel is a freelance medical writer with an Ed.D. from Harvard. She was the research liaison for DES Action, worked with the Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women, and is coauthor of Preventing Preterm Birth: A Parent's Guide (1988).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520208544
ISBN 13 
9780520208544
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
419
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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