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Dignity and the use of body parts
- Correspondence to Charles Foster, The Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 6TN, UK or Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6HG, UK;Charles.Foster{at}gtc.ox.ac.uk
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Dignity and the use of body parts
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- Received May 1, 2012
- Accepted July 5, 2012
- First published August 14, 2012.
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April 27, 2016
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