Taking tissue seriously means taking communities seriously

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Upshur, Ross E G ^a   Lavery, James V ^b   Tindana, Paulina O ^c  

^a at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMMODIFICATION; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HEALTH; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATENT; PERSONNEL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TONGA; TRANSPLANTATION; UGANDA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMODIFICATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OWNERSHIP; PATENTS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TONGA; UGANDA; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 37549048662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-8-11     Document Type: Review

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