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Making ‘bad’ deaths ‘good’: the kinship consequences of posthumous conception

2001-03-01

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Recent developments in assisted reproduction mean that a child may now be born long after its father’s demise. Acts of posthumous conception raise a host of complex ethical and social issues. The article draws attention to these by means of an analysis of the medical, legal, and political commentaries generated by the case of Diane Blood in her dispute with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which h...

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Reproductive Health and Technologies

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Literature Corpus work: 11db344c-cf34-57f1-8c2c-017d238026f4
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.00047

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