Procreation after death or mental incompetence: Medical advance or technology gone awry?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 889-895

  Ohl, D A ^a   Park, J ^a   Cohen, C ^a   Goodman, K ^a   Menge, A C ^a  

^a Box 0330   (United States)

Author keywords

brain death; death; ejaculation; electrical stimulation; mental competency; posthumous changes; reproduction; Spermatozoa; technology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EJACULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

EID: 0030472084     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(16)58680-4     Document Type: Article

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