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Healthcare/Hospital Law

Jan. 21, 2006

Illegal Trade of Body Parts Hurts Trust in Organ-Donation Programs

Forum Column - By Arthur Caplan and Glenn McGee - When it comes to the body, they say you can't take it with you when you die. But they didn't say it should be sold from the back of a truck. Or that you should not have the right to give a fully informed consent for whatever it is that medical science wants to do with your remains.

        
Forum Column

By Arthur Caplan and Glenn McGee
        
        When it comes to the body, they say you can't take it with you when you die. But they didn't say it should be sold from the back of a truck. Or that you should not have the right to give a fully informed consent for wh...

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