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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Main Author: Maung, Hane Htut (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
In: Bioethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 43-53
RelBib Classification:NCH Medical ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Disease
B Infertility
B Assisted Reproduction
B philosophy of medicine
B state-funded treatment
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