Rewinding Your Biological Clock: Motherhood Late in Life : Options, Issues, and Emotions - Hardcover

Paulson, Richard J.; Sachs, Judith

9780716733034: Rewinding Your Biological Clock: Motherhood Late in Life : Options, Issues, and Emotions

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071673303X ISBN 13: 9780716733034

Publisher: W H Freeman & Co, 1998

Follows the story of a woman no longer physiologically able to conceive without technological help, explaining the medical procedures involved in each step of the fertilization process

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From the Back Cover:

"Before you decide to use infertility medicine, read Rewinding Your Biological Clock. This is the first serious look inside the lives of the prospective parents who use high-tech fertility, and the physicians who worry about when to offer it. You learn a lot in this book about how it will feel for you--and what ethical issues you might stir up in the process. This is a provocative and sensitive book, the best of its kind ever."
--Glenn McGee, Ph.D., Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, author of The Perfect Baby

"Rewinding Your Biological Clock is a delightful book, combining an interesting and well-written story with insightful, educational, and biological information about reproduction. The story makes it tangible and keeps one interested, while the biological facts make it informative and provide a fun way to learn."
--Alan H. DeCherney, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA School of Medicine

"Here is the compassionate case for coping with forming families at a later age and moving motherhood into maturity. In Paulson's and Sach's cleverly constructed book we see how society, helped by science, can sympathetically complete the frame-shift by extending the childbearing years. It is a good book, a very good book--I'm glad it is being published."
--Robert Jansen, M.D., author of Overcoming Infertility

"Rewinding Your Biological Clock presents detailed, current technical information about reproduction in general and third-party reproduction in particular. Paulson and Sachs probe the psychological, sociological, ethical, religious and practical aspects of this controversial therapy with insight, compassion and considerable sensitivity. This book should be invaluable to patients and healthcare professionals working in this field."
--Steven J. Ory, M.D., Northwest Center for Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology

About the Author:

DR. RICHARD J. PAULSON, M.D., is Chief of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles and director of the University of Southern California Infertility Center. Perhaps the leading authority on egg donation in the United States, he is the physician who achieved a successful pregnancy in the oldest mother in the world.

JUDITH SACHS is a health educator and author of more than twenty books including Nature's Prozac, and The Healing Power of Sex. She has appeared on many major television and radio talk shows.

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