Gift not commodity? Lay people deliberating social sex selection

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 749-767

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Focus groups; Preimplantation genetic diagnosis; Public participation; Qualitative research; Social sex selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; CHILD PARENT RELATION; ETHICS; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; BIOETHICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PUBLIC OPINION; SEX PRESELECTION;

EID: 33845864413     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00540.x     Document Type: Article

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