Does company-sponsored egg freezing promote or confine women’s reproductive autonomy?

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1205-1209

  Mertes, Heidi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AGE banking; Ethics; Oocyte cryopreservation; Social egg freezing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYER; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMINISM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; OOCYTE CRYOPRESERVATION; OVARIAN RESERVE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; AGE; BIOBANK; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; INDUSTRY; OOCYTE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TRENDS;

AGE FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; OOCYTES;

EID: 84940796620     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-015-0500-8     Document Type: Article

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