Informed Consent and Fresh Egg Donation for Stem Cell Research

摘要: This article develops a model of informed consent for fresh oocyte donation stem cell research, during in vitro fertilisation (IVF), by building on the importance patients’ embodied experience. Informed typically focuses disclosure material information. Yet this approach does not incorporate knowledge that patients acquire through lived Drawing interview data from 35 and health professionals an IVF clinic Australia, our study demonstrates uncertainty treatment, tendency to overestimate their chances success prior experience treatment. Once active however, identify oocytes as both precious precarious. We argue it is necessary formally include source procedures, gratuitous egg-sharing regimes. recommend at least one full cycle be completed before approaching women divert eggs away own fertility