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Review
. 2010 Feb;10(1):26-9.
doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.10-1-26.

Bodies, organs and saving lives: the alternatives

John Saunders  1
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Review

Bodies, organs and saving lives: the alternatives

John Saunders. Clin Med (Lond). 2010 Feb.

Abstract

In a paper in the last issue of Clinical Medicine, some of the background to attitudes to newly dead bodies, the current context of an urgent need for organs for transplant and the objections to calling a proposal to address this 'presumed consent' were outlined. Here further concerns are explored.

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