Managing potential in assisted reproductive technologies: Reflections on gifts, kinship, and the process of vernacularization

Current Anthropology

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL.7, 2013, Pages

  Simpson, Bob ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84884551082     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670173     Document Type: Article

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