From Pittsburgh to Cleveland: NHBD controversies and bioethics.
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We were not surprised by the opinion piece written for the Cambridge Quarterly by George J. Agich, Ph.D., who chairs the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s bioethics department. Dr. Agich uses the article to attack those who criticized his institution’s proposed non-heart-beating organ donor protocol. Because we reported on this controversy for 60 Minutes in April 1997, we wanted to set the record straight. Cambridge Quarterly readers should be aware of the following:
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
دوره 8 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999