"Cycling overseas": Care, commodification, and stratification in cross-border reproductive travel

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 363-383

  Whittaker, Andrea ^a   Speier, Amy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Cross border reproductive care; Czech republic; IVF; Reproductive travel; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CZECH REPUBLIC; DONOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOUTH KOREA; THAILAND; UNITED STATES;

CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SKIN PIGMENTATION; THAILAND; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78549284033     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2010.501313     Document Type: Article

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