Your count is zero'-Counselling the infertile man

Human Fertility

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-39

  Wischmann, Tewes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender and infertility; Infertility counselling; Male infertility; Psychological stress; Stigma

Indexed keywords

AMBIVALENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GERMANY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MASCULINITY; MASTURBATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SPERM DONOR; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION;

ANIMALS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84875829257     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2013.776179     Document Type: Review

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