Assisted Reproductive Technology: Accomplishments and New Horizons

This insightful and thought-provoking collection of chapters describes the rapid advances that have revolutionized reproductive medicine. From oogenesis and spermatogenesis, through to fertilization, embryogenesis, and cloning, this volume looks at cutting-edge technologies and scientific advances. Subsequent chapters focus on infertility and its diagnosis and treatment using the full armory of assisted reproductive technologies. A concluding section surveys the impact of these developments on the provision, regulation, and financing of reproductive health care in the global community.

This insightful and thought-provoking compilation describes the meteoric advances that have revolutionised reproductive medicine.

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Contributors from assorted medical and biological disciplines provide a snapshot of the field as it develops. Within sections on the gametes, techniques, the clinic, and concepts for the global community, they discuss such topics as attributes of fertile spermatozoa, influences of culture media on embryo development, embryonic stem cells, the diagnosis and treatment of male infertility and female subfertility, the natural and stimulated cycles, developing immuno-contraceptives, and legal and ethical aspects of cryopreservation of gametes and embryos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Professor Christopher De Jonge is Director of Laboratories at the Reproductive Medicine Center Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Minnesota.

Professor Christopher Barratt is Scientific Director at the Assisted Conception Unit, Birmingham Women's Hospital.