Can the difference in medical fees for self and donor freeze-thaw embryo transfer cycle, be in fact a cover-up for the sale of donated human embryos?

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Heng, Boon Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECONOMICS; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO TRANSFER; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL FEE; TRANSPLANTATION;

CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEES, MEDICAL; HUMANS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 34248372426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17475341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-5341-2-3     Document Type: Note

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