A Guide to Reproduction
A Guide to Reproduction
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USDThe purpose of this comprehensive text is to increase awareness of human reproduction and its consequences. The central theme links reproductive capacity, the social consequences of the multiple stresses this places on the environment and the ways this relates back to the reproductive health of humans and other animals. In the first section, the biology of human reproduction is discussed, including such topics as the treatment and causes of infertility, growth and maturation, parental behaviour and neonate biology. The effects of procreational biology on the foundation of human social structure are also examined. The second part deals with reproduction as it relates to health and social issues such as stress, fertility control, AIDS, teratogens and errors of sexual differentiation. It is an invaluable resource for all those wishing to update their knowledge of human reproductive biology.
- Most students obsessed by sex - this book teaches the whys, hows and wherefores of human reproduction
- Interdisciplinary approach - will interest medical, biology and anthropology students as well as more general reader
- Ties concerns about effect of increasing world population in to individual and environmental (green) concerns
Reviews & endorsements
"As the title implies, Pollard's book about reproduction in all its guises places the subject in the context of social, human, and environmental concerns. The text, though thoroughly based on current biologic, genetic, physiologic, and scientific knowledge, is remarkably readable....The section on the history of artificial control of fertility is particularly interesting and provides the longitudinal perspective so frequently neglected. Highly recommended...." Choice
"...Many readers will enthusiastically welcome a written guide to the modern minefield of issues that involve reproductive biology...provides a substantial base for future explorations into the field." Armand Lione, Reproductive Toxicology
"Much of the Guide would be useful as a reference text for teachers of prenatal growth and development....Various chapters would also be useful for people interested in Darwinian medicine...." Lynnette E. Leidy, American Journal of Human Biology
"...thorough, informative and well-written." Religiouws Studies Review
"Readers interested in advanced textbook in biology will enjoy this volume. Descriptions of the biology of reproduction, including anatomy, physiology, and medicine are thorough, informative and well-written." Judy E. Stern, Religious Studies Review
Product details
July 1994Hardback
9780521418621
428 pages
235 × 156 × 30 mm
0.805kg
41 b/w illus. 2 tables
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Table of Contents
- 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.
