Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm (37 page)

Medical World

Menkin, Miriam

methods of study

money.
See bodily commodification entries
; egg donation, gendered framing of payment; markets of bodily goods; sperm donation, gendered framing of payment

Montefiore Medical Center

motherhood.
See
biological versus social parenthood; kinship; norms; offspring

motivations of donors.
See also egg donation entries; sperm donation entries

Murray, Thomas

National Organ Transplant Act (U.S.)

Nelson, Julie

New England Journal of Medicine

norms of gender (including femininity, masculinity, motherhood, and fatherhood).
See also
egg donation, framed as gift; sperm donation, framed as job; sperm donation, gendered framing of payment

Nussbaum, Martha

Office of Technology Assessment (U.S.)

offspring, donors’ feelings of connections to

biological and social parenthood

donors’ understanding of genetic contributions to

information on pregnancies and possibility of future meetings

requests for additional sperm to conceive full sibling.
See also
egg recipients, identity-release, sperm recipients

Oregon Health Sciences University

organ donation: altruism versus commodification and

gendered norms and market for

market for organs

organization al practices.
See
Creative Beginnings; CryoCorp; Gametes Inc.; OvaCorp; University Fertility Services; Western Sperm Bank

organization of market for sex cells: history of the market

selling eggs and sperm

theoretical framework

OvaCorp (pseudonym): altruistic and financial motivations in donor profiles

payment and

data and methods of study

demographics of donors

donation program characteristics and data collection

fees charged by

framing of donation

information on pregnancies

matching donors and recipients

offspring and understanding of genetic contribution

profile construction

recruitment/screening/selection

supply and demand issues

surrogacy and

ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome

Pancoast, Dr. William

payment to donors.
See
egg donation, gendered framing of payment and payment amounts; sperm donation, gendered framing of payment and payment amounts

physicians’ role in donation

premature ovarian failure

pro–choice rhetoric

profiles of donors: altruistic and financial motivations in

constructing of

honesty and payment

Internet and

photographs in

used in recruiting recipients

prostitution

psychological screening of donors

racial/ethnic diversity: payment and

markets and

screening and

Radin, Margaret Jane

Rapp, Rayna

recipients.
See
egg recipients

sperm recipients

recruiting donors.
See also
screening standards for donors

regulation of assisted reproduction

Relman, Arnold

research methods.
See
methods of study

rhetoric.
See
framing pro–choice rhetoric

risks of egg donation.
See
egg donation, physical process of; ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome

Rock, John

Scheper–Hughes, Nancy

screening standards for donors

selling eggs and sperm

fees and

framing of donation

matching with recipients

profile construction

recruitment and screening.
See also bodily commodification entries
; framing; history of egg donation; history of sperm donation; markets in bodily goods

sex/gender distinction.

Sharp, Leslie

Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART)

Southern California, University of

Spar, Debora

sperm donation: framed as job

freezing of sperm and

number of children conceived from

organization of market and

supply and demand issues.
See also
history of sperm donation; identity-release donors; sperm donation, gendered framing; sperm donation, physical process; sperm donors

sperm donation, gendered framing of payment

payment amounts

consequences of gendered framing

identity-release and

motivations of donors and

occupations of donors and

sociological approach to market for bodily goods and

spending choices and

sperm donation, physical process of

abstinence

masturbation

process

risks associated with

sperm donors: demographics of

matching to recipients

offspring and biological versus social parenthood

offspring and understanding of genetic contribution

profile construction

recruitment/screening/selection

rejection rates

time commitment.
See also sperm donation entries

sperm recipients: donor profiles geared to

donors’ perceptions of

fees charged

screening and.
See also
lesbians and single women, as recipients

Stern, William and Mary

Strathern, Marilyn

Suleman, Nadya

supply and demand, market for sex cells

surrogate mothers

egg donors and

gendered norms and market for

Titmuss, Richard

United Kingdom

University Fertility Services (pseudonym): data and methods of study

donation procedure

donation program characteristics and data collection

donor demographics

donor screening and selection procedures

framing of donation

uterine lavage, egg donation and

vaginal insemination

wages to donors.
See
egg donation, gendered framing of payment and payment amounts; sperm donation, gendered framing of payment and payment amounts

Warnock Report (UK)

washed sperm

Western Sperm Bank (pseudonym): altruistic and financial motivations in donor profiles

anonymity and

payment at

data and methods of study

demographics of donors

donation procedure

donation program characteristics and data collection

framing of donation

identity-release and

information on pregnancies

matching donors and recipients

profile construction

recruitment/screening/selection

supply and demand issues

Whitehead, Mary Beth

Yanagisako, Sylvia

Zelizer, Viviana

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