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	Donor Conception
	Infertility Issues/Avenues For Assistance
	Father/Male Relationship/Issues
	Living Without Children
	Ethical Issues
	Child/ Parent Issues
	Adoption
	For Children
	Females Issues
	Women's issues
	Loss
	Information for donors
	Research

Donor Conception

Artificial Insemination by Wilfred Finegold
Building Your Family Through Egg Donation by Joyce Sutkamp Friedman
Choosing Assisted Reproduction by Susan L.Cooper and Ellen S. Glazer
Choosing to be open about donor conception:the experiences of parents by Sharon Pettle & Jan Burnby » read review by DCSG members
Counselling donor offspring by Judith Bancroft
Families following assisted conception by Dr Alexina McWhinnie
Families from Assisted Conception by Dr Alexina McWhinnie
Family Secrets by John Bradshaw
Family Secrets:how telling and not telling Affect our children, our relationships and our Lives by Harriet Webster
Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination by Elizabeth Noble
Helping the Stork by Carol Vercollone and H & R Moss
Is Donor Egg for you? by Steve Litt with Sylvia Reuben Litt
Issues Surrounding the Relationship Between Donor Offspring and Their Non-Biological Parent, Particularly in relation to Discussions About Their Conception by Kirsty Taifalos
Lethal Secrets:The psychology of donor Insemination by Annette Baran & Reuben Pannor
Parents by Proxy by Georges Valensin MD
Telling It Your Way- A Guide for Parents of Donor-Conceived Adolescents by Dr Maggie Kirkman, Professor Doreen Rosenthal and Louise Johnson
The Artificial Family by R.Snowden and G.D.Mitchell
The Gift of a Child: A Guide to Donor Insemination by Robert Snowden and Elizabeth Snowden
Truth and the Child: Ten Years On by Eric Blyth, Marilyn Crawshaw and Jennifer Speirs
Who am I? by Alexina McWhinnie

Infertility Issues/Avenues For Assistance

A Baby Maybe by Carmel & Jerome Nugent-Smith
A Baby Of Your Own by Dr W. Karow & Dr W. Gentry
Alternative Infertility Treatments by Nicky Wesson
Beyond Infertility by Susan Cooper and Ellen Glazer
Chance of a Lifetime by C Dettman and D. Saunders
Childlessness by Elliot Philipp
Conceiving your baby by Sally Keeble
Conceptions and Misconceptions by Dr. Arthur Wisot and Dr. David Meldrum
Conquering Infertility by Stephen Corson
Designs on Life by Robert Lee Hotz
Fertility and Conception by John J Stangel, MD
Fertility and the Family by Jonathan Glover
Fertility Book by Dr Richard Marr
Healing the Infertile Family by Gay Becker, Phd
How to be a Successful Fertility Patient by Peggy Robin.
In search of Parenthood by Judith N.Lasker and Susan Borg
Infertility - New Choices, New Dilemmas by Elizabeth Bryan & Ronald Higgins
Infertility by Maggie Jones
Infertility by Roger Neuberg
Infertility by Dr Mike Smith
Infertility, all your Questions answered by Prof C. Wood and Prof G.Kovacs
Infertility - women speak out by R.D. Klein
Insights Into Infertility by Serono Laboratories
IVF by Prof C.Wood and R. Riley
IVF & Surrogacy by Kaye Healey
Manufacturing Babies by Dr Christine Ewing
Men, Women and Infertility by Aline Zolbrod
Missed Conceptions: Overcoming Infertility by Anne Mullens
Overcoming infertility by Herbert A. Goldfarb
Pandoras Clock by M.Freely and Dr. C Pyper
Poems from the Heart by Deidre Bowie
Q&A on Infertility by Dr Alexander Gunn
Resolving Infertility by the Staff of Resolve, the National Infertility Association, with Diand Aronsen, Director
Surviving Infertility by Linda Salzer
Taking Charge of Infertility by Pat Johnston
Taking Charge of your Infertility by the counselors at Melbourne IVF Edited by Kay Oke
The Baby Chase by Australian Women’s Weekly
The Elusive Embryo by Gay Beckerby » read review by DCSG members
The Experience of Infertility by Naomi Pfeiffer and Anne Woollett
The Fertility Sourcebook by M.Sara Rosenthal
The Fertile Years New Medical Lifelines for Women by Wendy Cooper
The Infertility Bookby Carla Harkness
The Long Awaited Stork by Ellen Sarasohn Glazer
The Unofficial Guide to infertility by J Liebmann-Smith, J Nardi Egan and J Stangel
Understanding by Patricia Irwin Johnston
Wanting Another Child by Harriet Fishman Simons
When the dream is shattered by Judith and Michael Murray
Why Me? the real-life Guide to Infertility by Loraine Brown

Father/Male Relationship/Issues

A Childless World. A husband's story? Author to be advised
Beginning Fatherhood by Warwick Pudney and Judy Cottrell
Being a Father by Edited by Ann Pedersen and Peggy O'Mara
Between Father and Child by Dr. R.Levant and J. Kelly
Blizzard And the Holy Ghost by Joseph Blizzard
Fatherless America by David Blankerhorn
Fatherless Daughters by Dimitra Demetriades
Fathers by Jodie Kenley & Hannah Lewis
Fathers and sons by C.Williams
Fertile Fathers by Ruth Sharkey
Finding Our Fathers by Samuel Osherson
Male Infertility : Men Talking by Mary-Claire Mason
Male Infertility by Serono Laboratories
Man Maintenance by Jill Margo
Men, Mateship, Marriage by Don Edgor
Secret Men's Business by John Marsden
So you're going to be a Dad by Peter Downey
Super Dad by Sally D Smith
The Passions of Fatherhood by S. Osherson
Towards Reproductive Certainty by Edited by Robert Jansen and David Mortimer

Living Without Children

Coping with Childlessness by Diane and Peter Houghton
Marriage without Children by D.Burgwyn, U.S.A 1981
Not having children by Helen Marshall
Sweet Grapes: How to stop being Infertile and start living again by Jean W.Carter and Michael Carter
The Childless Marriage by Elaine Campbell
The Option Of Parenthood by Sue Dyson, Great Britain 1993
When You Can't Have a Child by S.Powell and H. Stagol, Australia 1992

Ethical Issues

Advanced Topics in Bio ethics : Birth, Life and Death by Boston University
A question of life by Mary Warnock
Artificial insemination by donor by Phyllis Creighton
Brave New Baby by David Rorvik
Brave New Worlds by Bryan Appleyard
Conception in the Test Tube by by Harry Kannegiesser
Controversies in Health Law by Edited by Ian Freckelton and Kerry Petersen
Designer Babies by Roger Gosden
Ethics by William K Frankena
Genetic maps and Human Imaginations by Barbara Katz Rothman
Human Embryos by C R Austin
In the Blood by Steve Jones
Issues in Reproductive Technology by Helen Bequaert Holmes
Law and Ethics of AID and Embryo Transfer by Ciba Foundation Symposium 17
Life in a test-tube by Dr Daniel Ch. Overduin and Fr John I Fleming
Living Laboratories by Robyn Rowland
Made In the Lab by Senator John J Hogg (QLD)
Manufacturing Humans by D Gareth Jones
Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Myers
Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights Edited by Erik Parens and Adrienne Asch
Remaking Eden by Lee M Silver
Reproductive Technology by Dr Karen Dawson
Test-tube conception by Prof Carl Wood and Ann Westmoor
Test-Tube Women by R.Arditti, R.Duelli, R.Klein and S.Minden
The Baby Machine by Jocelynee Scutt
The Genetic Revolution by Dr Patrick Dixon
The Gene Wars by Robert Cook-Deegan
The Mother Machine by Gena Corea
The Politics of Reproduction by Mary O'Brien
Reproductive Revolution by Peter Singer and Diane Wells
Towards Reproductive Certainty Edited by Robert Jansen and David Mortimer
Whose Life is It by Kaye Healey, Australia 1992
Women as Wombs by Janice G Raymond

Child/ Parenting Issues

Baby Making by Susan Downie – 2 copies
Flight of the Stork by Anne C. Berstein
How do we tell the kids by Pinky McKay
How Babies and Families are Made by Patricia Schaffer
Latecomer's - Children of parents over 35 by Andrew L. Yarrow
Loving someone Else's Child by Angela Elwell Hunt, U.S.A. 1992
Twins, Triplets, More - Their nature, development and Care by Elizabeth Byan

Adoption

A mother's disgrace by Robert Dessaix
A Question Of Identity by Ferg McKinnon, Australia 1992
Adoption by Jeanne DuPrau, U.S.A. 1981
Adopting after infertility by Pat Johston
Adoption, Myth and Reality by Health & Community Services, Victoria, Australia 1992
Adoption, Search and Reunion by David Howe & Julia Feast
Adoption Without Fear by James L. Gritter
An Open Adoption by Linda Caplan, U.S.A 1990
Baby Come Back by Maeve Haran
Be My Family by Susan Powell
Binding Ties by Tom Frame
How it feels to be adopted by Jill KrementzJill Krementz
How to raise an adopted child by The Centre for Adoptive Families
Journey of the Adopted Self - a quest for wholeness by Betty Jean Lifton
Looking Back, Looking Forward by H David Kirk
Making sense of adoption - a parents guide by Lois Ruskai Melina
Missing Links by Vincent J Begley
Our Baby Written by Janice Koch, designed by Pat Goldberg
Perspectives on a grafted tree Compiled by Patricia Irwin Johnston
Raising Adopted Children by Lois Ruskai Melina
Reunion by Ann Howarth
Searching For Chairman by Suzanne Chick, Australia 1995
Separation, reunion, reconciliation by Janice Benson
So you're adopted by James Stanford
Tell me my story by Eva May
The Adoption Resource Book by Lois Gilman
The Primal Wound by Nancy Newton Verrier
The Truth about my Father by Gaby Naher
Thicker than Water? by Alice Heim
Understanding Adoption by Rose Snow
Waiting For Baby by Mary Earle Chase
Yours by choice by Jane Rowe

For children

Family Ties That Bind by Dr Ronald W Richardson
How Babies and Families are made (There is more than one way!) by Patricia Schaffer
How I Began. The story of Donor Inseminationby the NSW Infertility Social Workers Group
Let Me Explain by Jane Schnitter
Mommy, did I grow in your Tummy? by Elaine Gordon
My Story by Sheffield Uni. Dept. of Obst. & Gyn, Great Britian
Our Story for children conceived by DI into lesbian parent families Written for Donor Conception Network UK
Our Story for children conceived by DI into single parent families Written for Donor Conception Network UK
Sometimes it Takes Three to Make a Baby by Written by Kate Bourne and illustrated by Ron Thompson » Read review by DCSG member
The Cake that needed an Egg by Judith Wiles & Catherine Harrell
The Mulberry Bird by Anne Braff Brodzinsky, Phd
Where did I really come from? Written by Narelle Wickham, Illustrated by Ingrid Urh

Females health and other Issues

Coping with Postnatal Depression by Dr Bryanne Barnett
Don't Panic! Overcoming Anxiety, Phobias and Tension by Dr. Andrew Page
Endometriosis by Dr Lyle Breitkopf & Marion Bakoulis
Everywoman by Derek Llewellyn-Jones
Making Up Your Mind About Motherhood by Dr. Silvia Feldman
Miscarriage : The Facts by Gillian C. L. Lachelin
Mothers & Fathers Speak on the Drama of Pregnancy, birth and the First Year of Life by Norma Tracey
Mothers Matter Too by Jenny Phillips
Mothers Growing up by June E deVaus
PCOS Colette Harris with Dr Adam Carey
Painful People by Joseph Dunn
Sexuality and fertility after cancer by Leslie R Schover, PhD
Should We Have a Baby? by Candida Peterson
Someone Else to Love by Susan Schultz
Sperm Wars by Robin Baker
Still to be Born by Pat Schwiebert and Dr. Paul Kirk
The Heartache of Motherhood by Joyce Nicholson
Understanding Endometriosis Foreword by Dr Stephen Kennedy Published in conjunction with the National Endometriosis Society (UK)
Why Children? by Stephanie Dowrick and Sibyl Grundberg>
Women as Wombs by Janice Raymond
Women and Health by The Haworth Medical press
Your Body, Your Baby by Redfern Legal Centre Publishing

Pregnancy and motherhood

A baby At last by Jillian McFarlane, Yvonne Bostock & Maggie Jones
Battle of the Baby Gods by Amanda Hampson
Getting Pregnant by Niels Lauersen and Colette Bouchez
Getting Pregnant by Robert Winston
Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant by Diana Raab
Is My Baby All Right? by Christine Gosden, Kypros Nicolaides and Vanessa Whitting
Making Up Your Mind About Motherhood by Dr. Silvia Feldman
Mothers & Fathers Speak on the Drama of Pregnancy, birth and the First Year of Life by Norma Tracey
Mothers Growing up by June E deVaus
Mothers Matter Too by Jenny Phillips
Someone Else to Love by Susan Schultz
The Maternal Instinct by Susan Hampshire
Pregnancy and Childbirth by Dr Sue Jenkins
Premature Babies by Dr. W H Kitchen, M M Ryan, A L Rickards, J V Lissenden
Your Baby, Your Way by Deborah Cooper

Loss

Coping with Grief by By Mal McKissock
Coping with a Miscarriageby Hank Pizer and Christine O'Brien Palinski
Empty Arms
Giving sorrow words by Melinda Tankard Reist
Hidden Loss: Miscarriage&Ectopic Pregancy by Women's Press
Loss of a Baby by Margaret Nicol
Miscarriage by Produced by SANDS (NSW)
Miscarriage by Wendy Jones
Miscarriage by Margaret Leroy
Sex at 6pm by Annarosa Berman
Taking control:successful pregnancy after miscarriage by Diane Plater
The Hollow Heart by Martina Devlin
When The Dream is Shattered by Judith and Michael Murray
When Your womb is Empty by A Henry- Peris

Information for donors

Donors :Dispelling the Myth by The Donor Conception Support Group
Experiences of Donor Conception Parents, Donor offspring and Donors through the years by Caroline Lorbach

Research

Missing Links Exploration into the identity issues of people conceived via Donor Insemination by Geraldine Hewitt
Donor Insemination International Social Science Perspectives Edited by Ken Daniels and Erica Haimes
South Australian on Reproductive Technology by SACRT
Journal of Fertility Counselling by British Infertility Counselling Ass. Volume 9 No. 1 Spring 2002
Journal of Fertility Counselling by British Infertility Counselling Ass. Volume 9 No. 3 Autumn 2002