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Project

Ethical implications of new techniques for fertility preservation
Code
3E002810
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
    • Gynaecology and obstetrics
    • Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
    • Gynaecology and obstetrics
    • Nursing
    • Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
    • Gynaecology and obstetrics
Keywords
reproductive ethics medical ethics reproductive medicine fertility preservation Ethics and morality Ethics and morality
 
Project description
 

A recent branch within reproductive medicine aims to preserve the fertility of people whose reproductive potential is threatened by disease, medical treatments or other factors. This can be done by removing, storing and/or transplanting gametes, embryos and reproductive tissue. We aim to grasp the ethical issues that arise with each of these interventions.