Indirect commodification of ova donation for assisted reproduction and for human cloning research: Proposals for supranational regulation

Altruism Reconsidered: Exploring New Approaches to Property in Human Tissue

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 209-241

  Schneider, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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