Let the dead teach the living: The rise of body bequeathal in 20th-century America

Academic Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1000-1005

  Garment, Ann ^a,d   Lederer, Susan ^b   Rogers, Naomi ^b   Boult, Lisa ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Johns Hopkins School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH PROGRAM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 34748926981     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318149e986     Document Type: Review

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