Social egg freezing: A reproductive chance or smoke and mirrors?

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 387-391

  Martinelli, Lucia ^a   Busatta, Lucia ^b   Galvagni, Lucia ^c   Piciocchi, Cinzia ^b  

^a MUSE Science Museum   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; ETHICS; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICALIZATION; OOCYTE; PARENTHOOD; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL EGG FREEZING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIETY; TIME; WORK; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84941197048     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2015.56.387     Document Type: Article

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