Privacy, privatization, and the politics of patronage: Ethnographic challenges to penetrating the secret world of Middle Eastern, hospital-based in vitro fertilization

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 10 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 2095-2108

  Inhorn, Marcia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Hospitals; In vitro fertilization; Informed consent; Middle East; Privatization

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE;

ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIDDLE EAST; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; PRIVACY; REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 4444282661     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.03.012     Document Type: Article

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