TV Review: Coronation Street - Surrogacy in Weatherfield

Blyth, Eric (2013) TV Review: Coronation Street - Surrogacy in Weatherfield. BioNews (725).

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Abstract

The British TV soap opera, Coronation Street, has become an established national institution since the first episode was screened in December 1960. It is on several nights each week and is set in 'Weatherfield', a fictional working class neighbourhood in Manchester.

One of the programme's many plots this year has focused on a surrogacy arrangement made between intending parents Isabelle (Izzy) and Gary and their friend, Tina. This being 'soapland', there are various sub-plots. As a result, the overall storyline does stretch credibility to some extent, although as some 'real world' surrogacy cases illustrate, fiction is not necessarily stranger than fact (1,2).

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Schools:	School of Human and Health Sciences School of Human and Health Sciences > Centre for Applied Childhood Studies
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
Depositing User:	Sara Taylor
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2013 12:57
Last Modified:	03 Dec 2016 10:26
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/18843

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