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Grammars of Kinship: Biological Motherhood and Assisted Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics

2016-02-16

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In June 2012, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology issued a press release announcing that over 5 million children worldwide had been born with the help of in vitro fertilization. Although the sheer quantity is impressive in itself, an even more significant consequence of assisted reproductive technologies is that they have transformed a previously indisputable fact concerning biological kinshi...

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Literature Corpus work: 3dae483b-de82-5ed0-b85b-913479de5d9d
DOI: 10.1086/684233

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