Taking Baby Steps

How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29305-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 227 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals and confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates how women, men, and medical professionals negotiate infertility’s rocky terrain to create life and build families—a journey across personal, medical, legal, and ethical minefields that can test mental and physical health, friendships and marriages, spirituality, and financial security.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Madeira, Jody Lynee

Madeira, Jody Lyneé

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Gynäkologie, Geburtshilfe
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue

Part One. infertility as an emotional experience
1. Consent and Sensibility: Emotions, Decision Making, and Informed Consent in Reproductive Medicine
2. “The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants”: Patients’ and Providers’ Reflections on Desperation
3. Conceptive Catch-22s: The Benefits and Burdens of Infertility Emotions

Part Two. (re)productive treatment relationships: from choosing a provider to collaborating in conception
4. Off to See the Wizard: On the Road to Treatment
5. Being Patient: Patients’ Perspectives on Treatment Relationships
6. Doctoring Hope: Providers’ Perspectives on Treatment Relationships

Part Three. documenting the informed consent experience
7. Is Informed Consent in Reproductive Medicine in Critical Condition?
8. Filling in the Blanks: How Patients and Providers Experience Informed Consent
9. For Forms’ Sake: Comparing IVF and Embryo Disposition Forms
Conclusion: Thinking outside the Signature Box

Appendix: Methodology
Notes
Glossary of Common Fertility Terms
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jody Lyneé Madeira is Professor of Law at the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University–Bloomington, and the author of Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure.