Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 904-906 , September 2009

Rethinking reproductive “tourism” as reproductive “exile”

  • Marcia C. Inhorn, Ph.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Marcia C. Inhorn, Department of Anthropology, 10 Sachem Street, Room 202, P.O. Box 208277, New Haven, CT 06520-8277 (FAX: 203-432-3669).
    • ,
  • Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., M.B.E., H.C.L.D.

      Affiliations

    • Yale Fertility Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Received 7 November 2008 ,Revised 23 December 2008 ,Accepted 2 January 2009.

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 M.C.I. has nothing to disclose. P.P. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)00046-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.01.055

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 904-906 , September 2009

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