caa a22 4500 386356394 CHVBK 20180307111854.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266462300008515 doi S0266462300008515 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266462300008515 Novaes Simone B. Centre de Sociologie de I'Ethique, EHESS-CNRS Giving, Receiving, Repaying: Gamete Donors and Donor Policies in Reproductive Medicine [Elektronische Daten] [Simone B. Novaes] Current practices of donor recruitment for medical fertilization procedures are analyzed in the light of Marcel Mauss' essay on the gift in primitive societies. In this perspective, donor policies seem primarily designed to spare infertile recipients the obligation to recognize the donor's contribution to these procedures, thus avoiding the kinship issues that they raise. Questions of meaning concerning donation, social recognition of the donor's role, and clarification of the relational issues underlying fertilization procedures are nevertheless essential elements in establishing their social legitimacy. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care Cambridge University Press 5/4(1989-10), 639-657 0266-4623 5:4<639 1989 5 THC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462300008515 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462300008515 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Novaes Simone B. Centre de Sociologie de I'Ethique, EHESS-CNRS NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care Cambridge University Press 5/4(1989-10), 639-657 0266-4623 5:4<639 1989 5 THC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge