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Reproductive medicine is the most dynamic area within obstetrics and gynecology and, arguably, the most complicated. An explosion of scientific understanding and technological capabilities - particularly in contraception, infertility and menopause - has transformed the specialty into a high-profile subject that touches upon endocrinology, embryology, andrology, surgery, social science, and practical law and ethics. The Oxford American Handbook of Reproductive Medicine provides a practical overview of the reproductive system and a systematic approach to its disorders, covering diagnosis, assess

Reproductive health --- Contraception --- Family planning services --- Family planning clinics --- Family planning programs --- Clinics --- Reproductive health services --- Social service --- Conception --- Birth control --- Reproductive rights --- Human reproduction --- Human reproductive health --- Human reproductive medicine --- Reproductive medicine --- Health --- Prevention --- Health aspects

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This book explores regulatory conundrums around adolescent sexual health, abortion and assisted reproductive technologies in the UK. In doing so, it seeks to examine the various stages at which women’s reproductive health comes into contact with government action and assesses how these legal and policy fields are shaped through the conceptual lens of policy networks. Transformed expectations of women’s roles, along with developed biological capabilities and understandings of gender and sexuality have driven an increasingly complex politics of sex and reproduction. The book argues that assumed medial control over these issues is overshadowed by government calculations of cost-effectiveness. Moreover, decisions on the design of programmes and levels of access continually reflect traditional family formation. The outcome is unsurprisingly the marginalisation of women in publicly funded healthcare, but with a clear further impact on gender and sex minorities. COVID-19 has disrupted these dynamics further, altering the manner in which previously inhibited patients engage with the NHS. As the pandemic recedes it has become more timely than ever to consider the future of gendered healthcare in the UK, and to question the likelihood of long term change in the ability of patients to inform health policy decisions. The book will appeal to scholars and students of gender and health policy, law and politics, as well as healthcare practitioners. Sarah Cooper is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter, UK. She was Co-Chair of the Council for European Studies’ ‘Gender and Sexuality Research Network’ from 2018-2021.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Political sociology --- Sociology of health --- Politics --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- gezondheid --- politiek --- gender --- Reproductive health services. --- Women --- Health and hygiene.

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Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. While poor and low-income black women are often the "mascots" of premature birth outcomes, this book focuses on professional black women, who are just as likely to give birth prematurely. Drawing on an impressive array of interviews with nearly fifty mothers, fathers, neonatologists, nurses, midwives, and reproductive justice advocates, Dána-Ain Davis argues that events leading up to an infant's arrival in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and the parents' experiences while they are in the NICU, reveal subtle but pernicious forms of racism that confound the perceived class dynamics that are frequently understood to be a central factor of premature birth. The book argues not only that medical racism persists and must be considered when examining adverse outcomes--as well as upsetting experiences for parents--but also that NICUs and life-saving technologies should not be the only strategies for improving the outcomes for black pregnant women and their babies. Davis makes the case for other avenues, such as community-based birthing projects, doulas, and midwives, that support women during pregnancy and labor are just as important and effective in avoiding premature births and mortality. -- Provided by publisher. A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants. -- Provided by publisher. "'Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth' explores the issues of racism, medicine, and motherhood"--

Race discrimination --- African American women --- Discrimination in medical care --- Reproductive health services --- Reproductive Health Services --- African Americans --- Racism --- Health aspects --- Medical care --- Social aspects --- United States. --- Baby Doe rules. --- Black feminist framework. --- Children’s Bureau. --- German measles. --- March of Dimes. --- NICU. --- NICUs. --- Sheppard-Towner Act. --- afterlife of slavery. --- birth stories. --- birth workers. --- comprehensive care. --- definition of prematurity. --- diagnostic lapse. --- doula. --- doulas. --- etiology. --- hardy babies. --- labor. --- medical encounters. --- medical racism. --- midwives. --- misdiagnosis. --- model of care. --- neonatal intensive care unit. --- neonatologists. --- obstetric hardiness. --- polio. --- premature birth. --- preventive approaches. --- race and pregnancy. --- racial disparity. --- racial politics. --- racial science. --- racism. --- technologies of saving. --- temporality.

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Maternal health services --- Health services, Maternal --- Maternal and child health services --- Maternal and infant health services --- Maternal health care --- Maternity care --- Mother and child health services --- Mothers --- Perinatal care --- Safe motherhood programs --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive health services --- Women's health services --- Maternal and infant welfare --- Medical care

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"Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in Canadian society, the medical profession tackled the "national tragedy" of infant and maternal mortality by advocating "scientific motherhood." Canadian mothers were believed to be handicapped by an ignorance that could be remedied only through expert tutoring and supervision of child-rearing duties. Working within a Marxist-feminist framework, Cynthia Comacchio demonstrates that the campaign was part of a conscious plan to modernize Canadian families to meet the ideological imperatives of industrial capitalism. Doctors reasoned that if infants could be saved and their physical, mental, and moral health regulated, the benefits in socio-economic terms would more than offset any individual or state investment.

Preventive health services for children --- Infants --- Maternal health services --- Health services, Maternal --- Maternal and child health services --- Maternal and infant health services --- Maternal health care --- Maternity care --- Mother and child health services --- Mothers --- Perinatal care --- Safe motherhood programs --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive health services --- Women's health services --- Maternal and infant welfare --- Babies --- Infancy --- Children --- Child health services --- History. --- Health and hygiene --- Mortality --- Medical care