"Frankenstein to futurism": representations of organ donation and transplantation in popular culture

Transplantation Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 222-230

  O'Neill, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CELL TRANSFER; CLONING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LITERATURE; MEDICAL GENETICS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RELIGION; SOCIETY; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 33751119767     PISSN: 0955470X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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