Disturbances in Male Fertility (Handbuch der Urologie Encyclopedia of Urology Encyclopedie d'Urologie, 16)

Impending famine and a terrifying rate of consumption of natural resources are vital issues which have focussed public interest in the ecologic, social and political problems of ever increasing overpopulation in many countries of the world. As well as the vast material and intellectual expenditure lavished on family planning and birth control, the past decade has seen an immense research effort in the elaboration of improved methods of fertility control, both for men and for women. During the same period, however, research into the causes of male fertility disorders has proceeded with equal intensity, and a number of promising therapeutic approaches have become the subject of clinical trials. The wish of an individual or of a couple to have offspring is an absolute which requires no further justification, and there can be few challenges to a physician as essential as the spouses' predicament in a childless marriage. Only with a special knowledge of the function, pathology and pathophysiology of the reproductive system is he properly equipped to meet that challenge. Front Matter....Pages I-XXIII Anatomical and Functional Aspects of the Male Reproductive Organs....Pages 1-131 Quantitative Morphology of the Prostate and Epididymis....Pages 133-170 Etiology of Fertility Disturbances in Man....Pages 171-193 Male Fertility Disorders — History and Clinical Examination....Pages 195-201 Semen Analysis....Pages 203-213 Testicular Biopsy....Pages 215-223 Radiologic Investigation of Male Fertility Disorders....Pages 225-231 Endocrine Evalution of Male Fertility Disorders....Pages 233-241 Neurology of Male Fertility Disorders....Pages 243-260 Immunologic Causes of Male Fertility Disorders....Pages 261-285 Treatment of Male Infertility....Pages 287-300 Operative Therapy of Male Infertility....Pages 301-328 Artificial Insemination and Semen Preservation....Pages 329-346 Male Contraception....Pages 347-399 Impotence....Pages 401-411 Functional Sexual Disorders in the Male....Pages 413-419 Male Climacteric?....Pages 421-427 Back Matter....Pages 429-456