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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Sex cells
    sub title: the medical market for eggs and sperm
  name:
    name part: Almeling, Rene
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2011
    copyright date: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. In Sex Cells, Rene Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Although both men and women are usually drawn to donation for financial reasons, Almeling finds that clinics encourage sperm donors to think of the payments as remuneration for an easy "job." Women receive more money but are urged to regard egg donation in feminine terms, as the ultimate "gift" from one woman to another. Sex Cells shows how the gendered framing of paid donation, as either a job or a gift, not only influences the structure of the market, but also profoundly affects the individuals whose genetic material is being purchased.
  table of contents: Pt. I. Organizing the market -- 1. Characterizing the material -- 2. Selling genes, selling gender -- pt. II. Experiencing the market -- 3. Producing eggs and sperm -- Being a paid donor -- 5. Defining connections -- Appendix A. Egg and sperm donors' characteristics at time of interview -- Appendix B. Demographics of donors based on profiles at egg and sperm donation programs.
  note: Rene Almeling.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Artificial insemination, Human
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Artificial insemination, Human
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Infertility
    topic: Treatment
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Surrogate motherhood
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Insemination, Artificial
    topic: economics
  subject:
    topic: Sperm Banks
  subject:
    topic: Tissue Donors
  classification: HQ761 .A46 2011
  classification: 381/.45618178
  classification: 2011 J-583
  classification: WQ 208
  identifier: 9780520270954
  identifier: 0520270959
  identifier: 9780520270961
  identifier: 0520270967
  identifier: 2011008654
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110307
    record change date: 20170926142925.0
    record identifier: in00003716100