Fertility tourists or global consumers?: A sociological agenda for exploring cross-border reproductive travel

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 139-149

  Culley, Lorraine ^a   Hudson, Nicky ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction technologies; Cross border reproductive care; Fertility tourism; Infertility; Transnational reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549266348     PISSN: 18331882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18848/1833-1882/cgp/v04i10/53016     Document Type: Article

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