The Dead Donor Rule: Should We Stretch It, Bend It, or Abandon It?

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• Publication year

  1993

• Venue

  Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

• Publication date

  1993-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1353/KEN.0.0153PMID 10126538
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