Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; 1 How to Design a Baby; 2 What Couples Want and How We Deal With It; 3 The Infertility Epidemic; 4 The Right Treatment for the Right Patient; 5 In Search of the Embryo Guaranteed to Implant; 6 Infertility Treatments for Fertile People; 7 Who Pays? The Social Implications; 8 How Far Can We Go?; Postcript; Postscript; Eight Chapters in a Nutshell; Glossary of terms; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; X
Summary
In the developing world, the choices available to couples for fertility treatments in the 21st century are wider than ever before. This is a time when most types of infertility can be treated by modern 'test-tube' methods, yet reproduction itself has become inextricably bound with social and political trends - declining birth rates, delayed first pregnancy, childbirth beyond the age of 40, the state funding of infertility treatment - fertility treatment is a hot topic, high on theagenda of politicians in their efforts to reverse declining national fertility rates. The range of new technologies
