Adolescent-Reproductive-Health Books

This book uses detailed case material to illustrate the various concerns experienced by patients who are dealing with infertility. It provides clear descriptions of the specific interventions that address many of these patient concerns. Deveraux and Hammerman have presented material in such a way that therapists are able to select appropriate specific interventions so that therapy can be individualized to address the concerns of a particular patient or couple. Infertility and Identity also describes effective interventions for patients who may still be struggling with the issue of infertility years after a successful pregnancy or adoption. This book is especially relevant at a time when financial constraints often necessitate therapy to be focused and time-limited. This book will be an excellent resource for clinicians who are helping patients deal with the many issues related to infertility.

This is a much-needed resource for a major problem area for many couples. Deveraux and Hammerman have written an informed and useful book about a seldom-addressed problem. Of particular interest are their challenges to traditional thinking. As a psychologist often working with clients with infertility problems I found their concepts challenging and useful, full of practical information. Although directed to the professional this book is quite readable and down-to-earth, and will be as valuable resource for individuals and couples struggling with this problem. Highly recommended. Ronald J. Scott, Ph.D.

Author addresses issues of creating future people and conduct toward future people within a perspective sympathetic to the utilitarian foundations of current social policy theory. Presents an alternative to the total utility view that genuinely takes into account individual well-being, by incorporating the "person-affecting" insight. Read this book if you are interested in normative ethical theory and/or issues surrounding new reproductive technologies.

This book consists of nothing but jargon-laden rehashing ofothers' ideas and a few poorly conceived and insignificant accretionsto those ideas. The problems and ideas presented here are notinherently difficult to understand; the author engineeers problems of understanding for the reader with her stilted prose and her focus on abstract academic theorizing. She forgets that the underlying problems are real ones, facing real people, not merely occasions for her to exhibit that she has read about some esoteric concepts in the academic literature.

This is not a useful or interesting treatment of the issues it raises. The analysis is weak and focused more on terminological problems than on substantive insights. Cannot recommend it for anyone with an interest in the subject matter.

This book develops a moral theory that provides a potential background for "wrongful life" suits, and a perspective from which to evaluate new reproductive technologies. The writing is sometimes technical, and non-philosophers may find this book tough going. But from now on, anyone interested in these issues will need to read Roberts.