Fertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) (eBook)

CONTENTS

Contributors

Foreword
Susan Seenan, HND

Foreword
Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I: THEORY: ENGAGING THEORIES AND CONCEPTUAL CONCEPTS IN ART

1. A Template for a Comprehensive Theory of Infertility: A Roy Adaptation Model Perspective


Jacqueline Fawcett

2. Shifting Family Structure: Theoretical Perspectives of Worldwide Population and Family Composition


Jennie M. Wagner

3. A Theoretical Approach to Multidimensional Stress Experienced During Pregnancy by Women Who Conceive Via In Vitro Fertilization


Eleanor L. Stevenson and Kristina Cobb

4. Examining the Unit of Analysis in Assisted Reproduction: Conceptual Insights Into Individual, Couple, and Family Research in Education and Counseling


Patricia E. Hershberger and Sooyoung Yeom

5. Exemplar: Using an Egg Donor: Insights Into an Infertile Woman’s Experience


Patricia E. Hershberger

PART II: RESEARCH AND REVIEWS: DELINEATING THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE IN ART

6. Psychological Stress and Fertility


Angela K. Lawson

7. The Illusion of Normal Fertility: Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Birth After Oocyte Donation


Astrid Indekeu and Ken Daniels

8. Individual and Family Outcomes of First-Time Parents Older Than 40 Years: Implications of Later-Life Parenting


Julia T. Woodward and Katherine E. MacDuffie

9. Understanding the Impact of Delayed Parenting: Gender, Paid Work, and Work–Family Strategies


Tiffany Romain and Robert D. Nachtigall

10. Young Women’s Reasons Regarding Whether to Undergo Fertility Preservation Treatment When Facing a Cancer Diagnosis: A Literature Review


Patricia E. Hershberger

11. Accommodating Assisted Reproductive Technologies to Rabbinic Law


Tsipy Ivry

12. “If Some Is Good, More Must Be Better”: Diverging Goals Between Patient and Provider About Multifetal Pregnancies in ART


Alexandra Cooper, Kathryn E. Flynn, and Elizabeth A. Duthie

13. Exemplar: Medically High-Risk Conditions Necessitating Utilization of a Gestational Carrier


Eleanor L. Stevenson

PART III: POLICY: EXPLORING ACCESS AND CHALLENGES IN ART

14. Challenges to Infertility Advocacy in the United States: Defining Infertility and Barriers to Access to Care


Barbara Collura and Eleanor L. Stevenson

15. Utilization of ART Services in Developed Countries and Impact on Cross-Border Reproductive Care


Eleanor L. Stevenson and Jamie Kanehl

16. Utilization of Fertility Care in Developing Countries: Challenges in Family Building Around the Globe


Nathalie Dhont and Willem Ombelet

17. Emerging “Cost-Effective” Treatments Including Low-Cost IVF


Willem Ombelet and Nathalie Dhont

18. Defining Infertility: Global Views on Timing of IVF and the Ability to Access Care


Irma Scholten and Ben W. Mol

19. Changing Times: How Is Same-Sex Relationship Equality Impacting the Fertility Care Landscape?


Bethany G. Everett, Oluwatitofunmi O. Apatira, and Katharine McCabe

20. Exemplar: A Genetically At-Risk Couple Considers the Use of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in the United States


Patricia E. Hershberger

PART IV: PRACTICE: IMPROVING THE DELIVERY OF CARE IN THE ART SETTING

21. Assisted Reproductive Technology Treatment Options for Couples With Fertility Issues


Eleanor L. Stevenson

22. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Reproductive and Psychological Implications


Osama S. Abdalmageed, Jennifer L. Eaton, and William W. Hurd

23. Team Communication: Critical in the Care of the Couple With Fertility Challenges


Jamie Leonard and Eleanor L. Stevenson

24. Focusing on Nursing: Emerging Specialty Practice in the United Kingdom


Eilis Moody

25. Men and Infertility: Their Experience With Challenges in Family Formation


Kevin McEleny

26. Exemplar: An Adolescent Seeking Fertility Treatment


Anne Derouin

Epilogue: Family Formation—What Is Ahead?


Eleanor L. Stevenson and Patricia E. Hershberger

Index