Pregnancy loss, stigma, irony, and masculinities: Reflections on and future directions for research on religion in the global practice of IVF

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 537-545

  Layne, Linda L ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MALE; NOTE; PREGNANCY; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; PREJUDICE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 33845317618     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-006-9034-y     Document Type: Note

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