Reproductive tourism - A price worth paying for reproductive autonomy?

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 91-114

  Bylth, Eric ^a   Farrand, Abigail ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted conception; Globalization; Involuntary childlessness

Indexed keywords

ETHICS;

EID: 12844288976     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018305048969     Document Type: Article

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