Intrafamilial sperm donation: Ethical questions and concerns

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 933-936

  Nikolettos, Nikos ^a,b   Asimakopoulos, Byron ^b   Hatzissabas, Ilias ^a  

^a Ctr for Reprod Medicine of Thrace   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

ART; Ethics; Intrafamilial; Sperm donation

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FATHER; FEAR; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL STRESS; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; REVIEW; RISK; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPERM DONOR; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION;

EID: 0038736876     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg214     Document Type: Review

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