Fertility tourism: Circumventive routes that enable access to reproductive technologies and substances

Signs

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 280-289

  Bergmann, Sven ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL TOURISM; PATIENT RIGHT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS;

DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICAL TOURISM; PATIENT RIGHTS; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS;

EID: 78650339382     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655978     Document Type: Article

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