Is my blood mine? Some comments on the convention on human rights and biomedicine

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 321-323

  Petrini, Carlo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EDITORIAL; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN ORGAN TRAFFICKING; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; BIOETHICS; BLOOD DONOR; FEMALE; HISTORY; ITALY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; BLOOD DONORS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE;

EID: 84882381297     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2012.0103-12     Document Type: Editorial

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