Who owns my body - Thee or me? The human tissue story continues

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 327-331

  Samanta, Ash ^a,c   Samanta, Jo ^b   Price, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consent; Human organ; Human tissue; Law; Medical ethics

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMED CONSENT; LAW; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 4243130654     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-4-327     Document Type: Review

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