Chance, choice and control: Lay debate on prenatal social sex selection

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-31

  Scully, Jackie Leach ^a   Banks, Sarah ^b   Shakespeare, Tom W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Lay ethics; Prenatal social sex selection; Relational autonomy; UK

Indexed keywords

CHILD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; MORTALITY; SEX DETERMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL PERIOD; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT RIGHTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SEX PRESELECTION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646340141     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.12.013     Document Type: Article

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