PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - D L Dickenson
TI  - Procuring gametes for research and therapy: the argument for unisex altruism--a response to Donald Evans.
AID  - 10.1136/jme.23.2.93
DP  - 1997 Apr 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 93--95
VI  - 23
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/23/2/93.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/23/2/93.full
SO  - J Med Ethics1997 Apr 01; 23
AB  - There has been a troublesome anomaly in the UK between cash payment to men for sperm donation and the effective assumption that women will pay to donate eggs. Some commentators, including Donald Evans in this journal, have argued that the anomaly should be resolved by treating women on the same terms as men. But this argument ignores important difficulties about property in the body, particularly in relation to gametes. There are good reasons for thinking that the contract model and payment for gametes are both inappropriate, and that a model based on altruism should be applied to both sexes.