Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception

By Jody Lynee Madeira

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520293053
• ISBN13: 9780520293052
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"