From soft to hard paternalism and back: The regulation of surrogate motherhood in Greece

Portuguese Economic Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 205-220

  Hatzis, Aristides N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Commodification; Compensation; Consent; Economics of contracts; Exploitation; Legal formalism; Legal moralism; Legal paternalism; Surrogate motherhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350572777     PISSN: 1617982X     EISSN: 16179838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10258-009-0049-5     Document Type: Article

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