This encyclopedic survey provides clear descriptions of the key reproductive technologies of assisted conception from in vitro fertilization to cloning. It emphasizes recently developed reproductive techniques and introduces them to those unfamiliar with the technologies.
Part One: Contents Theories of ReproductionAncient to Contemporary,
Annette Burfoot
1. Historical Perspectives of Human Reproduction
2. Infant
Feeding
3. Sex Preference
4. Genetic Engineering
5. Genetic Diagnosis
6. New
Definitions of Family
7. Response of the Catholic Church to New Reproductive
Technologies
8. Reprotech: A Feminist Critique of the Language of
Reproductive Technologies
9. New Reproductive Technologies-Women and Science
10. New Reproductive Technologies as Dystopia Part Two: Early Reproductive
Technologies
11. Birth Technology
12. Birth Technologies: Critical
Perspectives
13. Breastfeeding
14. Infant-Feeding Technologies
15.
Contraception Technologies
16. Contraception-Ethics
17. Diethylstilbestrol
(DES)
18. Menstrual Disorder Technologies
19. Female Circumcision/Female
Genital Mutilation
20. Abortion Technologies
21. Abortion-Ethics
22. Adoption
and Restrictions on Abortion-Ethics
23. Prenatal Harm
24. Informed Consent
and Women in Labor
25. Reproductive Health in the Workplace
26. Contemporary
Midwifery Part Three: Early Infertility Treatments
27. Artificial
Insemination
28. Artificial Insemination Policy
29. Psychosocial Implications
of Donor Insemination
30. Lesbian Access to Donor Insemination
31. Male
Infertility
32. Ovulation Induction
33. Risk Perception and Health Screening
34. Prenatal Diagnosis Technologies
35. Prenatal Diagnosis-Critical
Perspectives
36. Sex Selection Part Four: Advanced Infertility Techniques
37.
In Vitro Fertilization-Overview
38. In Vitro Fertilization-Historical
Development
39. Ovarian Suppression by GnRH Agonists
40. Human Pituitary
Hormones and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
41. In Vitro Fertilization-Culture
Media
42. In Vitro Maturation and Ova Freezing
43. In Vitro Fertilization and
Male-Factor Infertility
44. Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer (GIFT)
45. In
Vitro Fertilization-Risks
46. Counseling
47. Selection and Assessment for
Treatment
48. Egg Donation
49. Surrogacy
50. "Baby M" Surrogacy Case
51.
World Health Organization Report on the Place of In Vitro Fertilization in
Infertility Care
52. Advanced Infertility Technologies and Occupational
Environments
53. Informed Consent and Advanced Infertility Technologies
54.
LegislationUnited Kingdom
55. LegislationThe Netherlands
56.
LegislationFrance
57. LegislationAustralia and New Zealand
58.
LegislationCanada
59. LegislationThe United States
60. LegislationGermany
Part Five: Reproductive and Genetic Science
61. Fetal Tissue Research and
Applications
62. Embryo Research
63. Embryo ResearchLegal Issues
64. Cloning
Technologies
65. CloningEthics
66. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
67.
GeneticsDiscrimination
68. Genetic Counseling
69. Ectogenesis
70. Genetic
Screening and German-Based EugenicsOld and New
Annette Burfoot is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Canada. Her areas of research and teaching include women and reproductive technologies, popular culture of the body, and the sociology of science and technology. In addition to The Encyclopedia of Reproductive Technologies (1999) she has published on national policy initiatives in reproduction, the popular representation of women in science fiction film, and the social impacts of genetic engineering.
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