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Article: Incorporating incest: gamete, body and relation in assisted conception*.
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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By the end of the 1990s in the UK, there was a general idea, promoted partly by academic and professional commentators and disseminated largely through mass media, that 'the public' used to be anxious about technologies of assisted conception--things like artificial insemination (AI), in-vitro fertilization (IVF), and the donation of gametes (ova and sperm)--but that such anxieties were no longer widespread. The message frequently conveyed was that 'the public' had become accustomed to new reproductive technologies (NRTs) and the research they required. Furthermore, it was argued, the same will happen with newer or more recently developed technologies such as ICSI ...
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