Eggs-ploiting women: A critical feminist analysis of the different principles in transplant and fertility tourism

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 634-641

  Pfeffer, Naomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

egg market; fertility tourism; transplant tourism

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG USE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMINISM; FERTILITY TOURISM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFERTILITY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; MEDICAL TOURISM; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

COMMODIFICATION; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MEDICAL TOURISM; OOCYTE DONATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POVERTY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 80455160367     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.08.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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