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Giving, Receiving, Repaying: Gamete Donors and Donor Policies in Reproductive Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Simone B. Novaes
Simone B. Novaes
Affiliation:
Centre de Sociologie de I'Ethique, EHESS-CNRS
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Current practices of donor recruitment for medical fertilization procedures are analyzed in the light of Marcel Mauss' essay on the gift in primitive societies. In this perspective, donor policies seem primarily designed to spare infertile recipients the obligation to recognize the donor's contribution to these procedures, thus avoiding the kinship issues that they raise. Questions of meaning concerning donation, social recognition of the donor's role, and clarification of the relational issues underlying fertilization procedures are nevertheless essential elements in establishing their social legitimacy.

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General Essays
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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 639 - 657
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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