Severe brain injury and organ solicitation: A call for temperance

Virtual Mentor

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 221-226

  Fins, Joseph J ^a  

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ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COMA; ETHICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; SOCIAL CONTROL; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN INJURIES; COMA; HUMANS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84882971299     PISSN: 19377010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.3.stas1-1203     Document Type: Article

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