Overview
- Written by leading experts in the field
- Provides insights into some of the most hot topics in reproductive medicine
- Sheds a new light on pregnancies in advanced paternal Age
Part of the book series: Reproductive Medicine for Clinicians (REMECL, volume 3)
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About this book
This new volume in the Reproductive Medicine for Clinicians series of the International Academy of Human Reproduction (IAHR) focuses on current hot topics in the field, their ethical and legal aspects and their impact on society.
It covers topics such as Covid-19, religious and philosophical controversies, possibilities that new technologies offer, human reproductive cloning problems, future challenges related to the heritable gene editing, therapeutic use of stem cells and stem cell factors and the role of receptors in steroids hormone action.
This volume also offers an analysis of important innovations and new possibilities such as the use of artificial intelligence in reproductive medicine and the future of prenatal testing. The volume also discusses the issues of pregnancies in advanced paternal age, ethical and legal aspects of gametes donation, sex preselection, surrogate motherhood and infertility in overweight or obese PCOS patients. Chapters on the ethicaland legal aspects of fertility preservation in woman, in children with cancer, and in patients sparing treatments in gynecological oncology are also included.
This new volume in the series is a valuable resource for gynecologists, obstetricians, endocrinologists, general practitioners and all specialists dealing with reproductive health.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Covid-19 Pandemic
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Rights to Reproduce
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Innovative Technologies
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Joseph G. Schenker, IAHR President, Professor and Chairman (Emeritus), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Martin Birkhaeuser, Professor Emeritus of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Berne, Switzerland​​.
Andrea R. Genazzani, IAHR General Secretary, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pisa, Italy.
John J. Sciarra, IAHR Vice President, Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA.
Liselotte Mettler, IAHR Treasurer and General Director, Professor Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Clinics of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hot Topics in Human Reproduction
Book Subtitle: Ethics, Law and Society
Editors: Joseph G. Schenker, Martin H. Birkhaeuser, Andrea R. Genazzani, Liselotte Mettler, John J. Sciarra
Series Title: Reproductive Medicine for Clinicians
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24903-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The International Academy of Human Reproduction 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24902-0Published: 17 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24905-1Published: 17 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-24903-7Published: 16 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-3599
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3602
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 251
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Reproductive Medicine, Bioethics, Sociology, general, Medical Law, Nursing Ethics