Foreword to Semen Analysis in 21st Century Medicine special issue in Asian journal of Andrology

• 来源期刊: 亚洲男性学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2010,（1）
• 页码范围: 7-10
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1038/aja.2009.49

摘要

Semen analysis as an integral part of infertility investigations has a surprisingly long history, emerging only slowly, from under a cloud of disrepute and occupying a solitary niche outside conventional pathology tests, until relatively recently. From origins in the 19th century when spermatozoa were only identified as present or absent in cervical mucus samples from postcoital tests, even then a practice deemed "... dabbling.... incompatible with decency and self-respect..." (cited in [1]).