Embryo adoption: Emergent forms of siblingship among Snowflakes® families

American Ethnologist

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-322

  Collard, Chantal ^a   Kashmeri, Shireen ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Batch siblingship; Delayed siblingship; Embryo adoption; Siblingship; Snowflakes ; United States.

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955516813     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01308.x     Document Type: Article

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