A sense of absence: The staging of heroic deaths and ongoing lives among american organ donor families

An Anthropology of Absence: Materializations of Transcendence and Loss

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 63-80

  Jensen, Anja Marie Bornø ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 79952939195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5529-6_4     Document Type: Chapter

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