Advertorial for the fertility-industrial complex

This is a textbook-style guide, which doesn't translate well to audiobook. Narration is mechanistic and often inferior, with occasional mispronunciation of important medical terms. The narration approach involves reading out verbatim every single word from the book, including table contents and chapter headings; this comes across as staccato and unengaging. The book itself is in need of a good edit. While the core contents are informative and generally accurate, it has a frustrating habit of over-simplifying basics while leaving complex details in an undigested form. You'll read introductory elements in a way which befits middle school instruction, but then skip straight to postgraduate level discussions of rare medical conditions. Most frustratingly, the book is written as an unquestioning defence of the medical establishment. If friends disagree with your treatment choices, simply cut them out of your life - or so we're told. No challenge exist that can't be solved by paying ever more money to doctors. Frequently, psychosocial, family and societal aspects of the conditions discussed are glossed over, simplified, or rendered subordinate to medicalization. To the man with a hammer, all problems doing indeed look like a nail. By all means read this book - but recognise it's written by people who sound like they have a bridge to sell you.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!