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Fertility. --- Infertility. --- Involuntary childlessness --- Sterility --- Sterility in humans --- Childlessness --- Generative organs --- Fertility, Human --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Fecundity --- Reproduction --- Infertility in animals --- Diseases

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This state-of-the-art laboratory manual includes 20 clinical protocols used daily for the investigation of the infertile male, presented with easy to understand, step-by-step methodology. The protocols are arranged from routine to advanced laboratory procedures common to clinical practice, including computer-assisted semen analysis, sperm preparation for IUI by density gradient and swim-up, sperm cryopreservation, and sperm DNA fragmentation test by TUNEL method, among others. The methodology in each protocol follows best practice guidelines made clearer by professionally hand-drawn illustrations covering most of the important steps and equipment. The authors, hailing from the world-renowned Andrology Center at Cleveland Clinic, have over 50 years of combined first-hand experience in managing very busy diagnostic and research facilities in male infertility and andrology. The book will be an indispensable resource for thousands of laboratory technologists, clinicians and reproductive professionals (andrologists, embryologist, etc.) engaged in the diagnosis and management of infertile men around the world.

Medicine. --- Endocrinology. --- Reproductive medicine. --- Andrology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Reproductive Medicine. --- Infertility, Male --- Diagnosis --- Research --- Male infertility --- Male sterility --- Sterility, Male --- Generative organs, Male --- Infertility --- Diseases --- Internal medicine --- Hormones --- Human reproduction --- Men --- Human reproductive health --- Human reproductive medicine --- Reproductive medicine --- Health --- Endocrine aspects --- Physiology --- Health aspects --- Endocrinology . --- Reproductive health.

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Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of an expensive privatized “baby business,” the Czech Republic has emerged as a central hub of fertility tourism, offering a plentitude of blonde-haired, blue-eyed egg donors at a fraction of the price.Fertility Holidays presents a critical analysis of white, working class North Americans’ motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF. Within this diaspora, patients become consumers, urged on by the representation of a white Europe and an empathetic health care system, which seems nonexistent at home. As the volume traces these American fertility journeys halfway around the world, it uncovers layers of contradiction embedded in global reproductive medicine. Speier reveals the extent to which reproductive travel heightens the hope ingrained in reproductive technologies, especially when the procedures are framed as “holidays.” The pitch of combining a vacation with their treatment promises couples a stress-free IVF cycle; yet, in truth, they may become tangled in fraught situations as they endure an emotionally wrought cycle of IVF in a strange place.Offering an intimate, first-hand account of North Americans’ journeys to the Czech Republic for IVF, Fertility Holidays exposes reproductive travel as a form of consumption which is motivated by complex layers of desire for white babies, a European vacation, better health care, and technological success.

Medical tourism. --- Fertilization in vitro. --- Fertility clinics. --- Political science / public policy / social security. --- Political science / public policy / social services & welfare. --- Fertility clinics --- Infertility --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Health tourism --- Tourism --- Involuntary childlessness --- Sterility --- Sterility in humans --- Childlessness --- Generative organs --- Fertility, Human --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Fertility clinic services --- Fertility services --- Infertility clinics --- Infertility services --- Clinics --- Diseases

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Providing a comprehensive review of the interactions between exercise and human reproduction, this unique text focuses on both the positive and negative consequences of sport and physical activity on male and female fertility and infertility and the biological mechanisms and processes behind them. Beginning with a review of the structure and function of the male and female reproductive systems as well as fertilization and gestation, the discussion then turns to the physiology and endocrinology of sport and exercise, which is further elaborated in subsequent chapters on the impact of physical activity, hormonal changes, pathologies, and consequences of drug use for active men and women. Additional chapters address related topics, such as the impact of sport on young athletes and developing reproductive potential, physical activity and pregnancy, the use of oral contraceptives in athletes, oxidative stress, and the impact of nutritional deficiencies on athletes’ fertility, with a final chapter providing recommendations and therapeutic guidelines for exercise-related reproductive disorders. Covering everything from  the fundamental principles of sports physiology and human reproductive potential to the interaction between physical exercise and the endocrinology of the reproductive system, Exercise and Human Reproduction is an authoritative resource for helping clinicians understand how the reproductive system adapts to activity and exercise and offers strategies to avoid potential harm to human reproduction.

Gynecology & Obstetrics --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Human reproduction. --- Infertility. --- Involuntary childlessness --- Sterility --- Sterility in humans --- Childlessness --- Generative organs --- Fertility, Human --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Human physiology --- Reproduction --- Reproductive health --- Reproductive rights --- Diseases --- Reproductive Medicine. --- Sports medicine. --- Gynecology. --- Andrology. --- Sports Medicine. --- Generative organs, Male --- Human reproduction --- Men --- Gynaecology --- Generative organs, Female --- Athletic medicine --- Athletics --- Medicine and sports --- Physical education and training --- Sports --- Sports sciences --- Human reproductive health --- Human reproductive medicine --- Reproductive medicine --- Health --- Endocrine aspects --- Physiology --- Medical aspects --- Health aspects --- Reproductive medicine. --- Gynecology .