A narrative review of the empirical evidence on public attitudes on brain death and vital organ transplantation: the need for better data to inform policy
Vital organ transplantation is premised on ‘the dead donor rule’: donors must be declared dead according to medical and legal criteria prior to donation. However, it is controversial whether individuals diagnosed as ‘brain dead’ are really dead in accordance with the established biological conceptio...
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BMJ Publ.
2015
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 291-296 |
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