"From frozen embryos to forever families": Kinship ethics and life ethics in the circulation of embryos amongst placing and adopting couples in the Snowflakes™ program;"De embriones congelados a siempre familias": Ética del parentesco y ética de la vida en la circulación de embriones entre las parejas donantes y las adoptantes en el programa Snowflakes™

Revista de Antropologia Social

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-65

  Collard, Chantal ^a   Kashmeri, Shireen ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adoption donation; California; Embryos; Filiation; Kinship ethics; Life ethics; Marriage; Parenthood; Reproductive technology; Siblingship; Snowflakes; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650301721     PISSN: 1131558X     EISSN: 19882831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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