An investigation of the conception, management and regulation of tangible and intangible property in human tissue: The PropEur project

Altruism Reconsidered: Exploring New Approaches to Property in Human Tissue

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 169-179

  Mullen, Caroline ^a   Widdows, Heather ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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