Third-party reproductive assistance around the Mediterranean: Comparing Sunni Egypt, Catholic Italy and multisectarian Lebanon

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 848-853

  Inhorn, Marcia C ^a   Patrizio, Pasquale ^a   Serour, Gamal I ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Catholicism; Islam; Law; Mediterranean; Third party reproductive assistance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; EGYPT; ETHNOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERVIEW; IRAN; ISRAEL; ITALY; LAW; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RELIGION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATHOLICISM; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS; ISLAM; ITALY; LEBANON; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; OOCYTE DONATION; PUBLIC POLICY; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SURROGATE MOTHERS;

EID: 78649673828     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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