Rethinking the biological clock: Eleventh-hour moms, miracle moms and meanings of age-related infertility

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1550-1560

  Friese, Carrie ^a   Becker, Gay ^a   Nachtigall, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Biological clock; Donor egg; Infertility; US

Indexed keywords

AGING; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EGG; INFERTILITY; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; OVARY; PREMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTE DONATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746274609     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.03.034     Document Type: Article

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