"He won't be my son": Middle Eastern Muslim men's discourses of adoption and gamete donation

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 94-120

  Inhorn, Marcia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Gamete donation; Infertility; Islam; Lebanon; Reproductive health

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FATHER CHILD RELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; REVIEW;

ADOPTION; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ISLAM; MALE; MEN; MIDDLE EAST; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 33644752993     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2006.20.1.94     Document Type: Review

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