Body fragmentation: Native American community members' views on specimen disposition in biomedical/genetics research

AJOB Empirical Bioethics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 19-30

  Sahota, Puneet Chawla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Genetics research; Informed consent; Native American; Specimen disposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904458694     PISSN: 23294515     EISSN: 23294523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23294515.2014.896833     Document Type: Article

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