Tough priorities: Organ triage and the legacy of apartheid

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 42-50

  Niewijk, Alexandria ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA;

HEALTH POLICY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREJUDICE; SOUTH AFRICA; TRIAGE;

EID: 0033216960     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3527871     Document Type: Article

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