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Reproductive technologies and the “survival” of the “human subject”

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  1. Department of Sociology, Regis College, 02193, Weston, MA, USA

    Louise Levesque-Lopman

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I wish to thank Kurt H. Wolff, Mildred Bakan, Eleanor Godway, James Ostrow and David Rehorick for their very useful comments and suggestions.

This paper was written while I was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women and with the support of a Regis College Faculty Grant.

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Levesque-Lopman, L. Reproductive technologies and the “survival” of the “human subject”. Hum Stud 16, 329–340 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01323142

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