Past semen donors' views about the use of a voluntary contact register

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 411-417

  Crawshaw, Marilyn A ^a   Blyth, Eric D ^b   Daniels, Ken D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Contact; Donor offspring; Information exchange; Register; Semen donors

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MORALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHILOSOPHY; PROGENY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGISTER; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPERM DONOR; TELEPHONE; THINKING; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 34247112707     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60886-3     Document Type: Article

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