An Overview of Surrogacy Around the World: Trends, Questions and Ethical Issues

Nursing for Women's Health

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 231-236

  Armour, Kim L ^a,b  

^a Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Gestational surrogate; International surrogacy; Surrogacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862518555     PISSN: 17514851     EISSN: 1751486X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-486X.2012.01734.x     Document Type: Article

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