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Beyond Second Opinions - Making Choices about Fertility Treatment (Paperback)
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Beyond Second Opinions - Making Choices about Fertility Treatment (Paperback)
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Beyond Second Opinions is both an expose of the risks, errors, and
distortions surrounding fertility medicine and an authoritative
guide for people seeking treatment. Accessible, comprehensive, and
extremely well-informed, this book takes the reader beyond hype to
the hard data on diagnoses and treatments. Judith Steinberg Turiel,
a consumer health activist and herself a veteran of fertility
treatments, uses the most up-to-date medical literature to shed new
light on difficult decisions patients face today and on
reproductive questions society must begin to address now. Those who
are seeking a more balanced perspective to help them make better,
more informed decisions will find a wealth of information about
current reproductive interventions-from simple fertility pills to
dazzling experimental options-as well as a discussion of the
non-medical forces (economic and political) that shape an
individual's treatment choices and reproductive outcomes. Despite
quantities of information showered upon patients, they remain
woefully misinformed; some fertility treatments may actually reduce
chances for a successful pregnancy and threaten a patient's health.
Turiel looks beyond surface claims to the real information, often
uncovering counterintuitive findings and sometimes scandalous
revelations. She exposes a realm of unregulated expansion,
unscientific experimentation, and recent scandal over stolen
embryos. Weaving together first-hand accounts, compelling stories,
a range of scientific information, and lively anecdotes, Turiel
addresses the persistent gulfs that separate medical professionals
and health care consumers. In the process she arms laypeople with
what they might not learn about infertility practices from doctors,
patient education brochures, and the newspaper. This title is part
of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University
of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the
brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on
a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1998.
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