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Fertility stakeholders’ concerns regarding payment for egg and sperm donation in New Zealand and Australia 生育利益相关者对新西兰和澳大利亚卵子和精子捐赠支付的担忧

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.006

Sonja Goedeke , Daniel Shepherd , Iolanda S. Rodino

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引用次数: 2

Reproductive travel to, from and within sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review 往返撒哈拉以南非洲和撒哈拉以南非洲内部的生殖旅行:范围审查

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.12.003

Tessa Moll , Trudie Gerrits , Karin Hammarberg , Lenore Manderson , Andrea Whittaker

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引用次数: 4

Like mother, like daughter, like granddaughter… Transgenerational ignorance engendered by a defective reproductive health technology 像母亲一样，像女儿一样，像孙女一样…由有缺陷的生殖健康技术造成的跨代无知

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.10.001

Emmanuelle Fillion , Didier Torny

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引用次数: 2

Thank you to our distinguished editors 感谢我们杰出的编辑

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2022.03.002

Kamal Ahuja (Chairman)

引用次数: 0

Adopting an ‘unlearner’ technology? Knowledge battles over pharmaceutical pain relief in childbirth in post-1968 France 采用“不学习”技术?1968年后的法国，关于分娩药物镇痛的知识之争

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.03.002

Sezin Topçu

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引用次数: 3

Analysis of fertility clinic marketing of complementary therapy add-ons 生育诊所辅助治疗附加产品营销分析

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.04.001

Julia Stein, Joyce C. Harper

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引用次数: 10

Preconditions to parenthood: changes over time and generations 为人父母的先决条件:随着时间和世代的变化而变化

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.03.003

Maja Bodin , Charlotta Holmström , Lars Plantin , Lone Schmidt , Søren Ziebe , Eva Elmerstig

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引用次数: 10

Surrogacy reform and its impact on the child’s right to birth registration 代孕改革及其对儿童出生登记权的影响

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.06.001

Elaine O'Callaghan

引用次数: 2

Knowledge and attitudes about assisted reproductive technology: Findings from a Hungarian online survey 关于辅助生殖技术的知识和态度:来自匈牙利在线调查的结果

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.06.005

Ivett Szalma , Tamás Bitó

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引用次数: 9

Who can take advantage of medically assisted reproduction in Germany? 在德国，谁可以利用医学辅助生殖?

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.05.002

Katja Köppen , Heike Trappe , Christian Schmitt

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引用次数: 6