Progress towards national self-sufficiency in organ transplants
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Progress towards national self-sufficiency in organ transplants.
a Department of Essential Health Technologies, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. b Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic., Australia. Correspondence to Luc Noël (e-mail: [email protected]). The federal shariat court of Pakistan recently upheld the country’s 2007 Transplantation of human organs and tissue o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.09.068817