Sexuality and Fertility Issues in Ill Health and Disability: From Early Adolescence to Adulthood (Repost)

This groundbreaking text explores sexuality and fertility issues for young people living with ill health or disability. This subject is often considered taboo, although for some of those coping with sexual or fertility impairment, it can be as difficult as coping with the disability or health condition itself.


Bringing together personal, professional and academic perspectives from a variety of disciplines and located within a life-course development framework, this book takes a holistic view of young people moving towards adulthood and examines the impact of illness or disability on their sexual and fertile identities. The broad range of chapters includes the experiences of minority ethnic groups, managing relationships, fertility preservation and treatment, and the transition to parenthood.

Professionals working with adolescents and young adults will find this book a rich source of insights, information and guidance.

Contents
INTRODUCTION

Part One: Children and Young People’s Understanding of Sexuality, Fertility and Parenting
1. Sexuality and Sexual Health Throughout the Childhood and Teenage Years
2. The Views of the Next Generation: An Exploration of Priorities for Adulthood and the Meaning of Parenthood Amongst 10–16-year-olds
3. Children and Young People’s Understanding of Infertility

Part Two: Medical, Scientific, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Compromised Fertility in Adolescence and Early Adulthood
4. Health Conditions and Treatments Affecting Fertility in Childhood and Teenage Years
5. Fertility Preservation Methods and Treatments for Females
6. Fertility Preservation Methods and Treatments for Males
7. Legal and Ethical Aspects Surrounding Fertility Preservation Services for Children and Young People

Part Three: Personal Experiences of Living with Health Conditions and Disability and the Impact on Sexuality and Fertility
8. Disability, Chronic Illness, Fertility and Minority Ethnic Young People: Making Sense of Identity, Diversity and Difference
9. The Sting in the Tail: Teenagers Coping with Sperm Banking Following a Cancer Diagnosis
10. Infertility: An Unspoken Presence in the Lives of Teens and Young Women with Turner Syndrome
11. Sexual and Reproductive Health in Young People with Cystic Fibrosis: Hard to Talk About but too Important to Ignore
12. Dispelling the Taboo of Intersex Conditions: We’re Only Human Like You!
13. Sexuality and Growing Up HIV-Positive: Lessons from Practice
14. Young Adult Cancer Survivors: Shaken Up, Getting Back, Moving On
15. Becoming a Parent – the Transition to Parenthood Where There is Pre-existing Fertility Impairment

Part Four: Voices
Unintended Catharsis Through Intended Art
Orchid
From One Parent to Another
Happy in Her Own Skin
REFERENCES
CONTRIBUTORS
SUBJECT INDEX
AUTHOR INDEX