"Robin Hood" of techno-Turkey or organ trafficking in the state of ethical beings

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 281-309

  Sanal, Aslihan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Media; Middle East; Organ trafficking; Privatization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POVERTY; TRANSPLANTATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; NARRATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POVERTY; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TURKEY; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 16644384648     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MEDI.0000046424.04222.ed     Document Type: Review

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