Infertility

Technology, Reproduction, and Faith.- Section One: Scientific and Psychological Questions.- Advances in Assisted Reproductive Technologies.- Issues in the Psychological Evaluation and Care of In Vitro Fertilization Couples.- Therapy of Working With the Childless Woman: The Pathos of Unrealized Dreams, The Psychology of Female Infertility.- Section Two: Theological Reflections.- Moral Horizons in Health Care: Reproductive Technologies and Catholic Identity.- Donum Vitae: Catholic Teaching Concerning Homologous In Vitro Fertilization.- Human Need and Natural Law.- Interventions Upon Gametes In Assisting the Conjugal Act Toward Fertilization.- Donum Vitae: Dissenting Opinions on the "Simple Case" of In Vitro Fertilization.- Section Three: Moral and Social Reflections.- Infertile Couples: Psychological Needs, Social Responsibilities.- What Price Fertility?.- In Vitro Fertilization: Secular Moral Authority, Biomedicine, and the Role of the State.- Section Four: Continuing Conversation.- Epilogue.- Appendix: Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith/Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day.- Notes on Contributors.