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Altruism in organ donation: an unnecessary requirement?
- Correspondence to Greg Moorlock, Medicine, Ethics, Society and History, University of Birmingham, 90 Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; g.j.moorlock{at}bham.ac.uk
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Altruism in organ donation: an unnecessary requirement?
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- Received January 26, 2012
- Revised February 5, 2013
- Accepted March 12, 2013
- First published March 28, 2013.
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January 21, 2014
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