Delivers current knowledge from global experts at the forefront of fertility and ART healthcare
The first publication of its kind, this book on fertility and assisted reproductive technology (ART) is a globally focused, authoritative guide to state-of-the-art information about modern fertility and ART healthcare. Written for clinicians, public health officials, women’s health experts, scientists, students, scholars, and other interested individuals, the book encompasses theoretical, research, policy, and clinical practice aspects of fertility and ART healthcare. The book features the diverse contributions of multidisciplinary researchers, scholars, and clinicians from eight countries who explore contemporary health care perspectives regarding individuals and families dealing with infertility and fertility challenges including such advanced technologies as in-vitro fertilization, intrauterine insemination, and oocyte preservation.
The book addresses theoretical underpinnings of fertility and ART healthcare including new ways of conceptualizing research and theoretical concepts. Practical aspects involved with administering and treating the many women and men whose lives are affected by fertility challenges are illuminated. Complex policy concerns resulting from the rapid advances in fertility and ART are considered. The health care needs of those seeking fertility evaluation and treatment including access to care locally and globally are examined in depth. The book also includes discussions about novel approaches and emerging populations in fertility and ART healthcare that expand the scope of care. Thought-provoking case examples from contemporary care practices will help the reader to synthesize information.
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Delivers thought provoking ART research and practice issues for health care clinicians, scholars, and scientists
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Synthesizes evolving theory, research, clinical practice, and public policy concerns
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Addresses complex considerations within the practice and delivery of fertility and ART services
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Written by international thought leaders and emerging scholars on the forefront of ART technologies and other issues
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Includes case study exemplars to stimulate critical thinking and transform discussion about modern fertility and ART care
Table of Content
CONTENTS
Contributors
Foreword Susan Seenan, HND
Foreword Marcia C. Inhorn, Ph D, MPH
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: THEORY: ENGAGING THEORIES AND CONCEPTUAL CONCEPTS IN ART
1. A Template for a Comprehensive Theory of Infertility: A Roy Adaptation Model Perspective
Jacqueline Fawcett
2. Shifting Family Structure: Theoretical Perspectives of Worldwide Population and Family Composition
Jennie M. Wagner
3. A Theoretical Approach to Multidimensional Stress Experienced During Pregnancy by Women Who Conceive Via In Vitro Fertilization
Eleanor L. Stevenson and Kristina Cobb
4. Examining the Unit of Analysis in Assisted Reproduction: Conceptual Insights Into Individual, Couple, and Family Research in Education and Counseling
Patricia E. Hershberger and Sooyoung Yeom
5. Exemplar: Using an Egg Donor: Insights Into an Infertile Woman’s Experience
Patricia E. Hershberger
PART II: RESEARCH AND REVIEWS: DELINEATING THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE IN ART
6. Psychological Stress and Fertility
Angela K. Lawson
7. The Illusion of Normal Fertility: Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Birth After Oocyte Donation
Astrid Indekeu and Ken Daniels
8. Individual and Family Outcomes of First-Time Parents Older Than 40 Years: Implications of Later-Life Parenting
Julia T. Woodward and Katherine E. Mac Duffie
9. Understanding the Impact of Delayed Parenting: Gender, Paid Work, and Work–Family Strategies
Tiffany Romain and Robert D. Nachtigall
10. Young Women’s Reasons Regarding Whether to Undergo Fertility Preservation Treatment When Facing a Cancer Diagnosis: A Literature Review
Patricia E. Hershberger
11. Accommodating Assisted Reproductive Technologies to Rabbinic Law
Tsipy Ivry
12. “If Some Is Good, More Must Be Better”: Diverging Goals Between Patient and Provider About Multifetal Pregnancies in ART
Alexandra Cooper, Kathryn E. Flynn, and Elizabeth A. Duthie
13. Exemplar: Medically High-Risk Conditions Necessitating Utilization of a Gestational Carrier
Eleanor L. Stevenson
PART III: POLICY: EXPLORING ACCESS AND CHALLENGES IN ART
14. Challenges to Infertility Advocacy in the United States: Defining Infertility and Barriers to Access to Care
Barbara Collura and Eleanor L. Stevenson
15. Utilization of ART Services in Developed Countries and Impact on Cross-Border Reproductive Care
Eleanor L. Stevenson and Jamie Kanehl
16. Utilization of Fertility Care in Developing Countries: Challenges in Family Building Around the Globe
Nathalie Dhont and Willem Ombelet
17. Emerging “Cost-Effective” Treatments Including Low-Cost IVF
Willem Ombelet and Nathalie Dhont
18. Defining Infertility: Global Views on Timing of IVF and the Ability to Access Care
Irma Scholten and Ben W. Mol
19. Changing Times: How Is Same-Sex Relationship Equality Impacting the Fertility Care Landscape?
Bethany G. Everett, Oluwatitofunmi O. Apatira, and Katharine Mc Cabe
20. Exemplar: A Genetically At-Risk Couple Considers the Use of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in the United States
Patricia E. Hershberger
PART IV: PRACTICE: IMPROVING THE DELIVERY OF CARE IN THE ART SETTING
21. Assisted Reproductive Technology Treatment Options for Couples With Fertility Issues
Eleanor L. Stevenson
22. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Reproductive and Psychological Implications
Osama S. Abdalmageed, Jennifer L. Eaton, and William W. Hurd
23. Team Communication: Critical in the Care of the Couple With Fertility Challenges
Jamie Leonard and Eleanor L. Stevenson
24. Focusing on Nursing: Emerging Specialty Practice in the United Kingdom
Eilis Moody
25. Men and Infertility: Their Experience With Challenges in Family Formation
Kevin Mc Eleny
26. Exemplar: An Adolescent Seeking Fertility Treatment
Anne Derouin
Epilogue: Family Formation—What Is Ahead?
Eleanor L. Stevenson and Patricia E. Hershberger
Index
About the author
Patricia E. Hershberger, Ph D, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, is an associate professor of nursing and an affiliate professor of medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
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