Does Funeral Preference Influence Clinical Necropsy Request Outcome?

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 337-340

  Start, R D ^a   Dube, A K ^a   Cross, S S ^a   Underwood, Jce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTOPSY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MORTUARY PRACTICE; ODDS RATIO; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031254909     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580249703700409     Document Type: Article

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