Recipients' views on payment of sperm donors

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 225-231

  Ravelingien, An ^a   Provoost, Veerle ^a   Wyverkens, Elia ^a   Buysse, Ann ^a   De Sutter, Petra ^b   Pennings, Guido ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

artificial reproduction; donor conception; ethics; payment; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPENSATION; CONCEPTION; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECIPIENT; REMUNERATION; SPERM DONOR; DONOR; HETEROLOGOUS ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; MALE; SPERMATOZOON;

HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS; MALE; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84938420803     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2015.04.016     Document Type: Article

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