Support for selling embryos among infertility patients

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 564-568

  Jain, Tarun ^a   Missmer, Stacey A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

ART; assisted reproductive technology; cryopreservation; embryo adoption; embryos; ethics; In vitro fertilization; infertility; IVF

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; NULLIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMODIFICATION; EMBRYO DISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TISSUE BANKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51449108643     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.101     Document Type: Article

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