Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 7 , Pages 880-891, June 2010

Reflections by patients who undergo IVF on the use of their supernumerary embryos for science

  • V. Provoost

      Affiliations

    • Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
    • Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), Brussels, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • G. Pennings

      Affiliations

    • Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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  • P. De Sutter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Reproductive Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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  • J. Gerris

      Affiliations

    • Department of Reproductive Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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  • A. Van de Velde

      Affiliations

    • Department of Reproductive Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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  • M. Dhont

      Affiliations

    • Department of Reproductive Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Received 2 July 2009; received in revised form 26 August 2009; accepted 19 January 2010. published online 22 April 2010.

Declaration: The authors report no financial or commercial conflicts of interest.

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 Veerle Provoost has a Master’s degree in Philosophy and in Gerontology and a PhD in Social Health Sciences. Since October 2005, she has been affiliated as a researcher to the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University and the Bioethics Institute Ghent where she studies patients’ disposition decisions regarding surplus cryopreserved embryos. Since October 2006, she is a postdoctoral fellow of the research foundation – Flanders (FWO). Her research interests centre on empirical bioethics in the field of reproductive medicine.

PII: S1472-6483(10)00134-3

doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.03.009

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 7 , Pages 880-891, June 2010

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