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- Published on: 15 March 2010
- Published on: 15 March 2010Transplantable organs don't come from cadaversShow More
However else they might be described, the obviously living, functioning, bodies of 'brain stem dead' organ donors are certainly not cadavers - which are dead bodies, corpses (OED). The perpetuation of their misrepresentation, unfortunately propagated by the Department of Health[1] in 1983, prejudices all attempts to assess the true level of public acceptance of organ transplantation practice.
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