Technological assessment of intracytoplasmic sperm injection: An analysis of the value context

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 930-935

  Hofmann, Bjørn ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ethics; Health policy; ICSI; Value analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GROWTH DISORDER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBFERTILITY;

EID: 0141958087     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(03)01152-X     Document Type: Article

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