Regulating reproduction: Frozen embryos, consent, welfare and the equality myth

The Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body: Transformation and Transgression

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 47-75

  Harris Short, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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