Family building through egg and sperm donation : medical, legal, and ethical issues /
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Boston :
Jones and Bartlett Publishers,
[1996]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Elliot L. Sagall
- Prologue / Machelle M. Seibel
- Pt. 1. Medical issues
- Understanding the medical procedures and terminology surrounding reproductive technology
- In vitro fertilization (IVF)
- Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT)
- Artificial insemination (AI)
- Assisted fertilization
- Surrogate
- Gestational carriers
- Egg donor
- Therapeutic donor insemination
- Psychologic aspects of TDI
- Evaluating the patients
- Screening and selecting the donor
- Matching donors and recipients
- Ordering semen samples
- Legal considerations of TDI
- Informed consent
- Rates of success
- Techniques of TDI
- Discontinuation of treatment
- Follow-up of TDI
- Psychologic issues associated with donor insemination
- Sense of self
- Sickness, loss, and mortality
- Oedipal rivalry and the other man
- Sexual dysfunction
- Program design for successful egg donation
- Setting up an egg donation program: the ethical debate
- Developing a team
- The counseling component
- The patient education module
- Recruitment, screening, and matching procedures
- The role of the coordinator: practical considerations
- Follow-up protocols
- Psychologic counseling and screening for egg donation
- Donor evaluation
- Known egg donors and their recipients
- Anonymous egg donors and their recipients
- Donor-recipient matching
- Genetic issues in gamete donation
- TDI as a paradigm
- Autosomal dominant indications
- Autosomal recessive indications
- X-linked recessive indications
- Part 2. Legal issues
- Laws surrounding reproductive technologies
- Background on assisted reproductive technology and the law
- Constitutional issues
- Family law issues: legal and biological parenthood
- Insuring infertility treatment: legal aspects of insurance coverage and discrimination
- State legislation
- Legal challenges based on insurance contract analysis
- Legal challenges based on federal legislation
- Coverage for egg donation
- Legal issues in egg donation
- Rearing rights and duties
- Donor and physician liability
- Risk to donors
- The legality of paying donors
- Issues of offspring welfare
- Egg donation consent forms
- General requirements for informed consent
- Informed consent forms for ovum donation
- Checklist for the recipient couple's consent forms
- Checklist for ovum donor's consent form
- Pt. 3. Social/ethical issues
- Charting uncharted waters the role of the ethics advisory committee
- Institutional review boards
- Egg donation in women over the age of fifty
- Factors responsible for introducing oocyte donation to older women
- Natural fertility in the perimenopause
- Religious views regarding gamete donation
- Jewish Law
- Islamic Law
- Christian view
- Consumer perspectives on the donor egg option
- Moving beyond the decision
- Getting support
- Conceptual and ethical considerations in medically assisted reproduction
- What is a parent?
- Explaining gamete donation to children
- Psychological readiness
- Telling
- Egg donation: psychological and counseling issues surrounding disclosure versus privacy
- Language
- Medical
- Sociological
- Conceiving the future: the impact of the human genome project on gamete donation
- Genetic mapmaking: the human genome project
- Government coordination of the human genome project
- Social and political origins of the human genome project
- Purpose and goals of the human genome project