Surrogacy: Is there Room for a New Liberty Between the French Prohibitive Position and the English Ambivalence?

Law and Bioethics: Current Legal Issues

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hunter Henin, Myriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Britain; France; Regulation; Surrogacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920078822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545520.003.0018     Document Type: Chapter

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