Tough Priorities: Organ Triage and the Legacy of Apartheid
For South Africans, heart transplantation centers are prized assets—symbols of the country's self-sufficiency, a source of national pride, and perhaps necessary to retain any capacity to provide advanced coronary care. They are also expensive to maintain in a country in which many citizens are...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1999
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The Hastings Center report
Year: 1999, Volume: 29, Issue: 6, Pages: 42-50 |
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| Summary: | For South Africans, heart transplantation centers are prized assets—symbols of the country's self-sufficiency, a source of national pride, and perhaps necessary to retain any capacity to provide advanced coronary care. They are also expensive to maintain in a country in which many citizens are afflicted with a low standard of living and inadequate medical attention. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-146X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3527871 |
