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Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 352 pages, height x width x depth: 215x137x20 mm, weight: 440 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Izdošanas datums: 05-May-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108940811
  • ISBN-13: 9781108940818
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 352 pages, height x width x depth: 215x137x20 mm, weight: 440 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Izdošanas datums: 05-May-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108940811
  • ISBN-13: 9781108940818
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Keywords:
A potential crisis in human fertility is brewing. This book presents a multi-faceted view of how our current inactivity is driving this decline still further. To bring about change, it's important to address how we got to this point, how the role of the IVF industry may solve or contribute to the problem, and what we can do ourselves.

A potential crisis in human fertility is brewing. As societies become more affluent, they experience changes that have a dramatic impact on reproduction. As average family sizes fall, the selection pressure for high-fertility genes decreases; exacerbated by the IVF industry which allows infertility-linked genes to pass into the next generation. Male fertility rates are low, for many reasons including genetics and exposure to environmental toxins. So, a perfect storm of factors is contriving to drive fertility rates down at unprecedented rates. If we do not recognize the reality of our situation and react accordingly, an uncontrollable decline in population numbers is likely, which we'll be unable to reverse. This book will address, in a unique and multi-faceted way, how the consequences of modern life affects fertility, so that we can consider behavioural, social, medical and environmental changes which could reduce the severity of what is about to come.

Recenzijas

'A thoughtful and forward-looking, expertly written analysis of human fertility projected into the future. This book not only analyses medical or environmental reasons and causes of human infertility but also educational, demographic and economic developments, and puts them into perspective. With this, the book points out the consequences of declining human fertility as well as possible solutions. A must read, not only for fertility specialists.' Ralf R. Henkel, LogixX Pharma Ltd., Theale, Berkshire, UK and Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, UK 'In The Infertility Trap, Professor John Aitken presents a unique view on the future of our species survival if we do not reconsider the ways we are conducting reproductive medicine. This book is a wake-up call to seek novel and safe alternatives for male contraception to help family planning.' Cristian O'Flaherty, Professor in the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Papildus informācija

Human fertility rates are dropping at an unprecedented rate. This book highlights the consequences of our current inaction.
Foreword;
Chapter 1; 1.1. Prologue; 1.2. Summary; 1.3. References;
Chapter 2; 2.1. A journey into the demographic heart of the matter; 2.2. The
shape of world population growth; 2.3. The emergence of infertility; 2.4.
Longevity, population momentum and migration; 2.4.1. Longevity; 2.4.2.
Longevity, affluence and infant mortality; 2.4.3. GDP and Health: mixed
blessings; 2.4.4. Population momentum; 2.4.5. The key role played by
migration; 2.4.6. Can China and India save us?; 2.4.7. Can Africa save us?;
2.5. Forecasting an uncertain future; 2.6. Summary; 2.7. References;
Chapter
3; 3.1. Female fertility: hostage to affluence, age and the search for
self-fulfilment; 3.1.1. The ascent of affluence; 3.1.2. Affluence,
infertility and the Malthusian paradox; 3.2. The demographic transition; 3.3.
Socio-educational factors and fertility; 3.3.1. Educational drivers for
female infertility; 3.3.2. Female education and marriage; 3.4. The
intersection of education and reproductive biology; 3.4.1. The fundamental
biology of female reproduction; 3.4.2. Age of Menarche; 3.4.3. The
reproductive years over before you know it; 3.5. How the immaturity of
human infants shapes our reproduction; 3.6. Reproduction and the care of our
offspring; 3.6.1. What is the point of granny and grandad?; 3.7. Marriage
virtue or vestige; 3.8. Importance of adequate sex education; 3.8.1. Why have
my eggs forsaken me?'; 3.9. Chromosomal abnormalities and female infertility;
3.10. The IVF industry and maternal age; 3.11. Are there any solutions to age
dependent female infertility?; 3.11.1. Oocyte donation; 3.11.2. Oocyte
freezing; 3.12. Socio-political issues; 3.12.1. Why would women wed?; 3.12.2.
A role for pro-natalist Government policies?; 3.13. Summary; 3.14.
References;
Chapter 4; 4.1. What is happening to the human male?; 4.2.
Testicular cancer; 4.3. Cancer and Opulence; 4.4. Other defects of the male
reproductive tract; 4.5. The vexed question of declining sperm counts; 4.6.
Possible causes of declining sperm counts; 4.7. Environmental pollution and
semen quality; 4.8. Falling testosterone levels and semen quality; 4.9.
Summary; 4.10. References;
Chapter 5; 5.1. The miracle of conception; 5.1.1.
The human spermatozoon; 5.1.2. The timing of insemination; 5.1.3. The
ripening of spermatozoa in the female tract; 5.1.4. The complexity of
fertilisation; 5.2. Summary; 5.3. References;
Chapter 6; 6.1. Why are men
infertile?; 6.1.1. Hamsters and human sperm function; 6.2. Oxidative stress
and the infertile male; 6.2.1. Reactive oxygen species; 6.2.2. Thaddeus Mann
and oxidative stress; 6.2.3. Oxidative stress and DNA damage; 6.2.4.
Oxidative DNA damage and mutations on the offspring; 6.3. Genetic causes of
male infertility; 6.3.1. Y-chromosome deletion; 6.3.2. Other genetic causes;
6.4. Summary; 6.5. References;
Chapter 7; 7.1. The Janus faces of IVF; 7.1.1.
Steptoe, Edwards and Purdy: the development of IVF; 7.1.2. ICSI and Male
Infertility; 7.1.3. The rise of ICSI; 7.2. Consequences of ART when conducted
at scale; 7.3. Negative impacts on IVF on the mutational load carried by
children; 7.4. Impact of assisted conception on fertility; 7.5. Summary; 7.6.
References;
Chapter 8; 8.1. The gathering storm; 8.2. The infertility trap;
8.2.1. Demographic factors; 8.2.2. Social factors; 8.2.3. Economic factors;
8.2.4. Environmental factors; 8.2.5. Evolutionary factors; 8.3. Summary; 8.4.
References;
Chapter 9; 9.1. How do we escape the trap?; 9.2. Sex Education;
9.3. Remove reproductive toxicants; 9.4. Counter oxidative stress; 9.5.
Elevate the status of reproductive toxicology; 9.6. Find ways of working with
the IVF industry; 9.7. Engineer social change; 9.8. Summary; 9.9. References;
Acknowledgements; Index.
John Aitken is the highest ranked expert on sperm biology and fertilization in the world (Expertscape). In 2019 the Australian magazine named him as Australia's leading reproductive biologist while a recent ranking of the world's leading scientists by Stanford University ranked him in the top 5 in Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine. He has won several major awards in reproductive science including the Carl G Hartman Award from the Society for the Study of Reproduction (USA) and the Distinguished Andrologist Award from the American Society of Andrology. In 2012 he was named as NSW Scientist -of-the-Year.