Is infertility a disease and does it matter?
Claims about whether or not infertility is a disease are sometimes invoked to defend or criticize the provision of state-funded treatment for infertility. In this paper, I suggest that this strategy is problematic. By exploring infertility through key approaches to disease in the philosophy of medic...
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Bioethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 43-53 |
RelBib Classification: | NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
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Disease
B Infertility B Assisted Reproduction B philosophy of medicine B state-funded treatment |
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