Reproductive agency and projects: Germans searching for egg donation in Spain and the Czech Republic

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 600-608

  Bergmann, Sven ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

anonymity; cross border reproductive care; ethnography; IVF; kinship; transnationalism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CZECH REPUBLIC; DONOR; EGG DONATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIELD WORK; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; OOCYTE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; REPRODUCTIVE AGENCY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE PROJECT; SPAIN; TRAVEL;

CZECH REPUBLIC; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GERMANY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICAL TOURISM; SPAIN; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 80455155065     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.06.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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