God'S laboratory: Religious rationalities and modernity in ecuadorian in vitro fertilization

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 507-536

  Roberts, Elizabeth F S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Catholicism; Ecuador; In vitro fertilization; Modernity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ECUADOR; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MALE; RELIGION; SOCIAL CHANGE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATHOLICISM; ECUADOR; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 33845367369     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-006-9037-8     Document Type: Article

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