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Ethical Dimensions of Male Infertility

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Ethical dilemmas are commonplace in male infertility and reproductive medicine. Core bioethical principles frame the way health providers think about and address such ethical dilemmas in male fertility issues and across the spectrum of medicine. This chapter serves to define the bioethical principles that should guide our decision-making. Furthermore, these ethical principles are applied to some of the most common ethical issues encountered in male infertility today.

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  1. Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Denise A. Asafu-Adjei

  2. Department of Urology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Lawrence C. Jenkins

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  1. PUR Clinic, University of Central Florida (UCF), Clermont, FL, USA

    Sijo J. Parekattil

  2. ANDROFERT and State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil

    Sandro C. Esteves

  3. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Ashok Agarwal

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Asafu-Adjei, D.A., Jenkins, L.C. (2020). Ethical Dimensions of Male Infertility. In: Parekattil, S., Esteves, S., Agarwal, A. (eds) Male Infertility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32300-4_67

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