Organ transplantation in Singapore: History, problems, and policies

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 10 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 2173-2182

  Schmidt, Volker H ^a   Lim, Chee Han ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Medical utilitarianism; Organ allocation; Patient selection; Singapore; Socio moral utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SINGAPORE;

EID: 4444225414     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.03.014     Document Type: Article

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