Edited by Christopher De Jonge and Christopher Barratt. 359 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $120. ISBN 978-0-521-85397-2.
In 1992, the announcement that pregnancies had been achievedafter intracytoplasmic injection of a single sperm into an oocytesent shock waves through the andrology community. Was the malegamete's role in reproduction now merely to contribute chromosomes?Was there any benefit to the clinical investigation of maleinfertility? Leaders in the field of andrology, including theeditors of and several contributors to The Sperm Cell, arguedthat intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) was simply a toolto assist fertilization for men with unexplained or undiagnosedsubfertility and would not replace the need to further our understandingof sperm function. Indeed, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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