From IVF to Immortality: Controversy in the Era of Reproductive Technology

From IVF to Immortality: Controversy in the Era of Reproductive Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-248

  Deech, Ruth ^b   Smajdor, Anna ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Embryology; Ethics; Hfea; Ivf; Law; Regulation; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922714347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199219780.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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