Narratives: An essential tool for evaluating living kidney donations

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-194

  Alnaes, Anne Hambro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Donors; Duty; Gift; Living kidney donation; Motives; Narratives; Nephrologist; Psychologist; Recipients; Reciprocity; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859264851     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-011-9337-9     Document Type: Article

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