Do we need to change the legislation to a system of presumed consent to address organ shortage?

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 84-94

  Simillis, Constantinos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DONOR; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRESUMED CONSENT; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 77954925597     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/msl.2010.009016     Document Type: Review

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