ArticleSociology of health & illness2012
Eggs, ethics and exploitation? Investigating women's experiences of an egg sharing scheme.
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- Sacrifice and solicitation: an empirical ethics study of egg provider blogs.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- The Invisible Patient: Concerns about Donor Exploitation in Stem Cell Research.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2022Article
- Gender dynamics in the donation field: human tissue donation for research, therapy and feeding.Sociology of health & illness · 2019Article
- The making of a moral economy: women's views of monetary transactions in an 'egg sharing for research' scheme.The British journal of sociology · 2018Article
- Scientific and Ethical Issues in Mitochondrial Donation.The New bioethics : a multidisciplinary journal of biotechnology and the body · 2018Article
- Rendered invisible? The absent presence of egg providers in U.K. debates on the acceptability of research and therapy for mitochondrial disease.Monash bioethics review · 2015Article
- Biobanking human embryonic stem cell lines: policy, ethics and efficiency.Monash bioethics review · 2015Article
- Challenges to ART market: a Polish case.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2015Article
- Research ethics and stem cells: Is it time to re-think current approaches to oversight?EMBO reports · 2015Article
- "The angel of the house" in the realm of ART: feminist approach to oocyte and spare embryo donation for research.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2014Article
- Therapeutic potential of somatic cell nuclear transfer for degenerative disease caused by mitochondrial DNA mutations.Scientific reports · 2014Article
- Juggling on a rollercoaster? Gains, loss and uncertainties in IVF patients' accounts of volunteering for a U.K. 'egg sharing for research' scheme.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2013Article
- Stem cell research, scientific freedom and the commodification concern.EMBO reports · 2011Article
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Abstract
There is a growing global demand for human eggs for the treatment of sub-fertile women and for stem cell-related research. This demand provokes concerns for the women providing the eggs, including their possible exploitation, whether they should be paid, whether they can give properly informed consent and whether their eggs and bodies are becoming commodified. However, few of the debates have benefitted from insights from the women themselves. We address this gap in knowledge by reporting on a study investigating women's views and experiences of a scheme in which they can volunteer, in their capacity as fertility patients, to 'share' their eggs with researchers and receive a reduction in in vitro fertilisation fees. We focus our discussion on the question of exploitation, a concept central to many sociological and ethical interests. In brief, our analysis suggests that while interviewees acknowledge the potential of this scheme to be exploitative, they argue that this is not the case, emphasising their ability to act autonomously in deciding to volunteer. Nonetheless, these freely made decisions do not necessarily take place under circumstances of their choosing. We discuss the implications of this for egg provision in general and for understandings of exploitation.
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