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Abandoning the Dead Donor Rule
- Correspondence to Dr Anthony P Smith, English and Philosophy, Snow College, Ephraim, UT, 84627, USA; anthony.smith{at}snow.edu
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Abandoning the Dead Donor Rule
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- Received November 29, 2021
- Accepted September 4, 2022
- First published October 3, 2022.
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October 18, 2023
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