Donor Insemination

This volume provides clear guidelines on the advantages, disadvantages and limitations of the use of donor insemination to treat infertility. The team of authors, drawn from a wide range of disciplines, covers all aspects of implementing and organising a successful donor insemination programme. The volume includes practical information on recruitment, screening and selection of suitable donors; counselling of patients and donors; clinical, scientific and laboratory aspects, including fertility assessment, ovulation timing and cryopreservation. The volume concludes with information on organisation of sperm banks, the use of computerisation and ethical and legal aspects. The volume is designed to assist all those involved in the treatment of infertility - including andrologists and clinicians in the fields of reproductive medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology.

"...is helpful for anyone approaching donor insemination for the first time or when setting up a donor insemination service. It is readable and can serve as a source of information for nurses, residents, lay readers, practitioners and anyone interested in the topic.... a significant contribution and needed resource for teaching and assessing the state of donor insemination today." PonJola Coney, Fertility & Sterility

"...[the book's] strengths are in the compassionate, humanitarian presentation of its material, and the thoughtfulness with which the authors address the ethical and legal aspects of donor insemination...Nurse-midwives working primarily with donor-inseminated couples may wish to review this book for its thorough, highly scientific treatment of donor insemination..." Alice G. Hunt, Journal of Nurse-Midwifery