Is it ethical for patients with renal disease to purchase kidneys from the world's poor?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1699-1702

  Bakdash, Tarif ^a,b   Scheper Hughes, Nancy ^c  

^a DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVING DONOR; POVERTY; REVIEW; SOCIAL MEDICINE; VIOLENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; POVERTY; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 33750879227     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030349     Document Type: Review

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