Implantable tags: Don't close the door for Aunt Millie!

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 50-52

  Niemeijer, Alistair ^a   Hertogh, Cees ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; ELECTRONICS; ETHICS; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; NOTE; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIO WAVES; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STEREOTYPING; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 52149092729     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265160802318139     Document Type: Note

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