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Organs in the bazaar: The end of the beginning?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Mohammad A. Rai  and
Omer Afzal
Mohammad A. Rai
Affiliation:
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan [email protected]@aku.edu
Omer Afzal
Affiliation:
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan [email protected]@aku.edu
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Two comments on organ trading
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 10 - 11
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