Guide to Reproduction - Social Issues and Human Concerns

Zusammenfassung A Guide to Reproduction is a comprehensive! interdisciplinary text for science and medical students about the theories and principles of normal and abnormal human reproductive function and the surrounding technologies. It is an invaluable resource for all those wishing to update their knowledge of human reproductive biology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements; Part I. Reproductive Biology: 1. Fertility and infertility; 2. Sex determination and gamete maturity; 3. Neuroendocrine control of puberty; 4. Control of the menstrual cycle; 5. The testis and control of spermatogenesis; 6. Sexual behaviour and pheromones; 7. Sociobiology and reproductive success; 8. Fertilization and initiation of development; 9. Maternal physiology during gestation and fetal development; 10. Parturition and lactation: hormonal control; 11. Parental behaviour and the physiology of the neonate; 12. Decline in male reproduction and the menopause; Part II. Reproduction and Social Issues: 13. Population dynamics, stress and the general theory of adaptation; 14. Extinctions and the conservation of endangered species; 15. Artificial control of fertility; 16. Hormonal contributions to errors of sexual differentiation; 17. The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic: a global emergency; 18. The effects of nutrition and exercise on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis; 19. Principles of teratology and an update on nicotine, ethanol and caffeine abuse; 20. Ethical aspects of human reproductive biology; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Irina Pollard, Irina (Macquarie University Pollard, Pollard Irina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.1994
• EAN: 9780521429252
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42925-2
• No. of pages: 428
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, MEDICAL / Reproductive Medicine & Technology, Human biology, Zoology and animal sciences, Human reproduction, growth & development, Animal Reproduction, Human reproduction, growth and development