enerbol and Infertility

Topics: Attitude; Beginning of Human Life; Blastocyst; Contraception, Immunologic; Embryo Research; Embryology; Ethics, Medical; Eugenics; Fertilization in Vitro; Fetal Diseases; Human Experimentation; Human Rights; Humans; Infertility; Life; Personhood; Research; Risk Assessment; Social Control, Formal; United Kingdom

Topics: Advisory Committees; Australia; Beginning of Human Life; Biomedical Research; Canada; Chimera; Cryopreservation; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; Embryo Research; Embryo Transfer; Embryo, Mammalian; Embryonic and Fetal Development; Ethical Review; Ethics; Fertilization in Vitro; Fetal Tissue Transplantation; Fetus; Genetic Engineering; Government Regulation; Human Rights; Humans; Individuality; Infertility; International Cooperation; Internationality; Life; Methods; Moral Obligations; Personhood; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Public Policy; Research; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Control, Formal; Social Responsibility; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; United Kingdom; United States

Topics: Child; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Infertility; Infertility, Female; Life; Pediatric Obesity; Stress, Psychological

To examine traditional Jewish concepts and practices of reproduction, and define problems that may arise in members of Orthodox Jewish society that follows the Halachah (the Jewish codes of conduct).. Expert opinion based on clinical experience.. Academic-affiliated fertility clinic situated in an observant Jewish community.. Orthodox and Ultraorthodox (Haredi) couples of the Jewish community.. We examined traditional Jewish concepts and practices of reproduction and defined problems that may arise in Jewish Orthodox society.. None.. The concepts and practices of reproduction of Orthodox religious Jewish couples may lead to halachic subfertility and modification of the usual infertility workup. Treatments are limited to and determined largely by considerations related to religious doctrine.. Understanding the religious, social, and cultural background of patients, particularly religious Orthodox women, enables appropriate fertility counseling and treatment.

Topics: Counseling; Eastern Orthodoxy; Ejaculation; Family Characteristics; Female; Humans; Infertility; Jews; Judaism; Life; Male; Marriage; Reproduction

Topics: Abortion, Induced; Advisory Committees; Beginning of Human Life; Embryo Research; Embryo, Mammalian; Embryonic and Fetal Development; Financing, Government; Guidelines as Topic; Humans; Infertility; Life; Moral Obligations; National Institutes of Health (U.S.); Public Policy; Research; Research Embryo Creation; Social Responsibility; United States

Topics: Beginning of Human Life; Cryopreservation; Embryo, Mammalian; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Infertility; Informed Consent; Life; Preimplantation Diagnosis; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Resource Allocation; Risk; Risk Assessment; Stress, Psychological

Topics: Attitude; Beginning of Human Life; Communication; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Embryo Research; Embryo, Mammalian; Ethics; Fertilization in Vitro; Genetic Diseases, Inborn; Government Regulation; Humans; Individuality; Infertility; Life; Mass Media; Personhood; Politics; Public Opinion; Public Policy; Research; Research Personnel; Social Control, Formal; United Kingdom; Value of Life; Wedge Argument

Topics: Advisory Committees; Anthropology; Attitude; Beginning of Human Life; Catholicism; Christianity; Cryopreservation; Embryo, Mammalian; Family Relations; Female; Fertilization in Vitro; Government Regulation; Human Experimentation; Humans; Infertility; Insemination, Artificial; Jurisprudence; Life; Marriage; Morals; Parent-Child Relations; Protestantism; Public Policy; Reproduction; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Research Personnel; Sexuality; Social Change; Social Control, Formal; Surrogate Mothers; United Kingdom; Value of Life; Women's Rights

Topics: Abortion, Induced; Beginning of Human Life; Catholicism; Child; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Economics; Embryo, Mammalian; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Female; Fertilization in Vitro; Freedom; Health; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Infertility; Insemination, Artificial; Judaism; Life; Marriage; Moral Obligations; Oocyte Donation; Parent-Child Relations; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Prenatal Diagnosis; Reproduction; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Sexuality; Social Change; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; Spermatozoa; Surrogate Mothers; Tissue Donors; Women; Women's Rights

Topics: Beginning of Human Life; Catholicism; Child; Cryopreservation; Embryo Research; Embryo, Mammalian; Family Relations; Female; Fertilization in Vitro; Human Experimentation; Humans; Individuality; Infertility; Insemination, Artificial; Life; Marriage; Moral Obligations; Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation; Oocyte Donation; Personhood; Reproduction; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Research; Sexuality; Social Responsibility; Surrogate Mothers; Tissue Donors; Value of Life

Topics: Abortion, Eugenic; Beginning of Human Life; Catholicism; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Cryopreservation; Embryo Research; Embryo Transfer; Embryo, Mammalian; Ethics; Female; Fertilization in Vitro; Fetal Research; Fetus; Government Regulation; Humans; Individuality; Infertility; Insemination, Artificial; Life; Marriage; Methods; Moral Obligations; Personhood; Prenatal Diagnosis; Public Policy; Religion; Reproduction; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Research; Sexuality; Social Control, Formal; Social Responsibility; Surrogate Mothers; Theology; Value of Life

Topics: Abortion, Eugenic; Beginning of Human Life; Catholicism; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Cryopreservation; Embryo Research; Embryo Transfer; Embryo, Mammalian; Ethics; Female; Fertilization in Vitro; Fetal Research; Fetus; Government Regulation; Humans; Individuality; Infertility; Insemination, Artificial; Life; Marriage; Methods; Moral Obligations; Personhood; Prenatal Diagnosis; Public Policy; Religion; Reproduction; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Research; Sexuality; Social Control, Formal; Social Responsibility; Surrogate Mothers; Theology; Value of Life

Advances in medicine's ability to assist reproduction in those afflicted with infertility raise numerous ethical questions both for potential recipients of the techniques and for society as a whole. Society must decide what level of resources should be committed to the treatment of infertility in light of the fact that many children are not readily placed in adoptive or foster homes and the increasing competition that exists for scarce health care resources. The ethical uncertainty about the moral status of embryos and the moral acceptability of nonstandard techniques of in vitro fertilization raise further troubling questions about the adequacy of consent, committee review, and other protections for the welfare of families. Although it may not yet be appropriate to call for legislation or regulation in this area, there is a very real need to increase professional and public discussion of the ethical and policy questions raised by assisted reproduction.

Topics: Adoption; Beginning of Human Life; Costs and Cost Analysis; Embryo Transfer; Ethics, Medical; Female; Fertilization in Vitro; Government Regulation; Humans; Infertility; Internationality; Legislation, Medical; Life; Medical Assistance; Moral Obligations; Morals; Oocyte Donation; Personhood; Resource Allocation; Social Justice; Spermatozoa; United States

Topics: Beginning of Human Life; Canada; Civil Rights; Embryo Transfer; Embryo, Mammalian; Fees and Charges; Female; Fertilization in Vitro; Human Experimentation; Humans; Infertility; Insemination, Artificial; Jurisprudence; Life; Oocyte Donation; Ovum; Ownership; Parent-Child Relations; Public Policy; Reproduction; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Spermatozoa; Surrogate Mothers; Tissue Donors; United Kingdom; United States

A review of prominent ethical issues during 1981 focuses on three areas: prenatal diagnosis and the fetus as a patient, public policy on abortion, and in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer. Moral concerns, litigation, proposed legislation, and federal aid are noted. Several other bioethical issues important in 1981 are touched on briefly.

Topics: Abortion, Eugenic; Abortion, Induced; Beginning of Human Life; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Embryo Transfer; Federal Government; Fertilization in Vitro; Fetus; Financial Support; Genetic Diseases, Inborn; Government; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Individuality; Infertility; Legislation as Topic; Life; Patient Care; Patients; Personhood; Prenatal Diagnosis; Public Opinion; Resource Allocation

Topics: Attitude; Australia; Beginning of Human Life; Cryopreservation; Embryo Transfer; Embryo, Mammalian; Fertilization in Vitro; Human Experimentation; Humans; Infertility; Life; Public Policy; United Kingdom; United States

Topics: Abortion, Induced; Beginning of Human Life; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Embryo Transfer; Ethical Review; Ethics; Fertilization in Vitro; Fetus; Government Regulation; Humans; Infertility; Informed Consent; Life; Research Personnel; Social Control, Formal

Topics: Animals; Beginning of Human Life; Blastocyst; Cricetinae; Embryo Implantation; Ethics, Medical; Fallopian Tubes; Female; Fertilization; Haplorhini; Humans; In Vitro Techniques; Infertility; Life; Macaca; Male; Medical Laboratory Science; Mice; Microscopy, Phase-Contrast; Ovum; Personhood; Pregnancy; Rabbits; Sperm Capacitation; Uterus

Topics: Animals; Fallopian Tubes; Female; Humans; Infertility; Infertility, Female; Life