Authors: Richard V. Grazi
ISBN-13: 9789655260205, ISBN-10: 9655260208
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Toby Press LLC, The
Date Published: June 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
At a time when medical advances in fertility treatment are being made with unprecedented speed, Jewish couples are finding themselves psychologically and ethically challenged. Overcoming Infertility is an indispensable reference book for couples, rabbis and counselors trying to understand and resolve the complex issues of fertility therapy. This thorough and sensitive work examines contemporary technologies as they relate to halakha, the particular psychological and social issues faced by Jewish couples grappling with infertility, and the intersection of the physical and spiritual aspects of overcoming infertility to give couples the guidance and hope they need to fulfill the profound human desire to have children.
Foreword | ||
A brief history of fertility therapy | 5 | |
The rabbinic conception of conception | 31 | |
The longing for children in the traditional Jewish family | 67 | |
The rabbinic and medical partnership | 73 | |
Infertility : issues from the heart | 79 | |
A rabbinic response to infertility | 95 | |
On adoption | 101 | |
The couple, the physician and the rabbi : a triumvirate partnership | 111 | |
The physiology of conception | 121 | |
General aspects of female infertility | 131 | |
Diagnostic procedures in the female patient | 189 | |
A general overview of male infertility | 227 | |
Evaluation and treatment of male infertility | 251 | |
Halakhic considerations in the treatment of female infertility | 277 | |
Assisted reproduction | 311 | |
Fertility treatment on the Sabbath and festivals | 369 | |
Rabbinical supervision during fertility therapy | 391 | |
New ethical issues | 409 | |
Future directions | 425 |