Organ transplantation as a transformative experience: anthropological insights into the restructuring of the self.

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Medical Anthropology Quarterly

• Publication date

  1995-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1525/MAQ.1995.9.3.02A00050PMID 8542439
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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