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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
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Is the commercialisation of human tissue and body material forbidden in the countries of the European Union?
- Correspondence to Dr Katharina Beier, Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen, Humboldtallee 36, Göttingen 37073, Germany; kbeier{at}gwdg.de
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Is the commercialisation of human tissue and body material forbidden in the countries of the European Union?
Publication history
- Received January 6, 2011
- Revised April 27, 2011
- Accepted May 24, 2011
- First published June 22, 2011.
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April 27, 2016
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