Failures of reproduction: Problematising 'success' in assisted reproductive technology

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 125-131

  Peters, Kathleen ^a   Jackson, Debra ^a   Rudge, Trudy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Biostatistics; Feminist narrative analysis; Infertility; Success

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GUILT; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MORALITY; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GUILT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MEN; MORALE; NARRATION; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL VALUES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; WOMEN;

EID: 34249011430     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2007.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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