Playing with one’s own death while being alive: The case of registered body-organ donors in greece

Anthropology and Humanism

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 111-123

  Papagaroufali, Eleni ^a  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

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EID: 84962322991     PISSN: 15599167     EISSN: 15481409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2006.31.2.111     Document Type: Article

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