Ethical controversies in public solicitations for organs

Transplantation Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 184-186

  Wright, Linda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERNET; KIDNEY DONOR; LIVING DONOR; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 45049083519     PISSN: 0955470X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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