Eggs, ethics and exploitation? Investigating women's experiences of an egg sharing scheme

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1199-1214

  Haimes, Erica ^a   Taylor, Ken ^a   Turkmendag, Ilke ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commodification; Egg sharing; Exploitation; IVF; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; DONOR; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ETHICS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; TISSUE DONORS; WOMEN;

EID: 84868578579     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01467.x     Document Type: Article

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