The ethics of organ donation after cardiocirculatory death: Do the guidelines of the Canadian council for donation and transplantation measure up?

Open Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Browne, Alister ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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