The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin

Foreword Alan Trounson; Part I. Culture Media and Solutions: 1. Overview Patrick Quinn; 2. Media and embryo interactions Patrick Quinn; 3. Female tract environment and its relationship to ART media composition Henry J. Leese and Sarah Louise Whitear; 4. Buffering systems in IVF Natalie A. Clark and Jason E. Swain; 5. Essential features in media development for spermatozoa, oocytes and embryos David Mortimer; 6. Macromolecular supplementation of embryo culture media Thomas B. Pool; 7. Monozygotic twinning and assisted reproduction. Laboratory or clinical? Marius Meintjes; 8. Amino acids and ammonium Deirdre Zander-Fox and Michelle Lane; 9. Growth factors and cytokines in embryo development Sarah A. Robertson and Jeremy G. Thompson; 10. Osmolality Jay M. Baltz; 11. pH control in the embryo culture environment Joe Conaghan; 12. In vitro maturation of immature human oocytes Ri-Cheng Chian, Shan-Jun Dai and Yao Wang; 13. Oocyte and embryo cryopreservation media Diana Patricia Bernal, Ching-Chien Chang and Zsolt Peter Nagy; 14. International regulation of ART media Theresa Jeary; Part II. Culture Systems: 15. Culture of embryos in dynamic fluid environments André Monteiro da Rocha and Gary Daniel Smith; 16. Time-lapse imaging of embryo development: using morphokinetic analysis to select viable embryos Markus H. M. Montag, Kamilla S. Pedersen and Niels B. Ramsing; 17. Optimizing culture conditions Kathleen A. Miller; 18. Low cost IVF Luca Gianaroli, M. Cristina Magli and Anna P. Ferraretti; 19. Incubators old and new Eduardo Kelly and Takeo Cho; 20. Incubator management William R. Boone and H. Lee Higdon, III; 21. Summary and conclusions Patrick Quinn; Index.

Michele Elam is Professor of English at Stanford University. She is an affiliate with the Michelle R. Clayman Insitute for Gender Studies, African and African American Studies, and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Elam is the author of Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 and The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium, and is currently working on editing a critical mixed race studies reader.