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  • Title: Giving, receiving, repaying. Gamete donors and donor policies in reproductive medicine.
    Author: Novaes SB.
    Journal: Int J Technol Assess Health Care; 1989; 5(4):639-57. PubMed ID: 2699471.
    Abstract:
    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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