"You might not feel like yourself": On heart transplants, identity, and ethics

Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare: Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 33-44

  Poole, Jennifer M ^a   Shildrick, Margrit ^b,c   McKeever, Patricia ^d   Abbey, Susan ^d,e   Ross, Heather ^d  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

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