With or against nature? IVF, gender and reproductive agency in Athens, Greece

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1853-1866

  Paxson, Heather ^a  

^a PITZER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Greece; IVF; Nature culture; Reproductive technologies

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; GENDER ROLE; REPRODUCTION; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

CONCEPTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREECE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MATERNAL CARE; PATERNITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFIDENTIALITY; CULTURE; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENDER IDENTITY; GREECE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; NATURE; PATERNALISM; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

GREECE;

EID: 0037400990     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00209-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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