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2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Anthropological study of surrogacy: an expiatory research on the practice of surrogacy

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 24720388
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Cultural anthropology/Folklore
Research InstitutionOsaka University (2013-2015)
Kanazawa University (2012)

Principal Investigator

Shimazono Yosuke  大阪大学, グローバルコラボレーションセンター, 講師 (40621157)

Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Keywords医療人類学 / 代理出産 / 生殖補助医療 / イギリス
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to investigate the regulation and the practice of surrogacy in the United Kingdom. For this purpose, ethnographic research was conducted as well as review of literature. As a result, it became apparent that, despite the legal probation of the commercial surrogacy in the UK, the use of commercial surrogates in such countries as the United States, India, Ukraine and Russia has become increasingly common in the UK . It is also a finding of this study that this trend is closely tied to the increasingly popularity of the "alternative parenting."

Free Research Field

文化人類学

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Published: 2017-05-10  

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