Experiences of Family Relationships among Donor-Conceived Families: A Meta-Ethnography

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1223-1240

  Wyverkens, Elia ^a   Van Parys, Hanna ^a   Buysse, Ann ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

infertility; meta ethnography; reproduction; review

Indexed keywords

CHILD PARENT RELATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; DONOR; DONOR CONCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; OVUM; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; DONOR CONCEPTION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; OVUM; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84939208520     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732314554096     Document Type: Article

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