Egg donation for stem cell research: Ideas of surplus and deficit in Australian IVF patients' and reproductive donors' accounts

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 513-528

  Waldby, Catherine ^a   Carroll, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affordances; Oocyte donation; Patient perspectives; Science studies; Stem cell research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DONOR; ECONOMICS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIVING DONOR; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE DONATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STEM CELL RESEARCH; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIVING DONORS; OOCYTE DONATION; PREGNANCY; STEM CELL RESEARCH; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84860472033     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01399.x     Document Type: Article

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