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Chapter 9 - The Emotion Work of a “Labor of Love”

An Ethnographic Account of Surrogacy Arrangements in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2016

By
Zsuzsa Berend
Edited by
E. Scott Sills
E. Scott Sills
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Genetics, California
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Handbook of Gestational Surrogacy
International Clinical Practice and Policy Issues
 , pp. 62 - 69
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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