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April 2014
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Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors

By: Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby and Filiz Garip

The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most... View Details

Keywords: Altruism; Donations; Body; Whole-body; Clinical Anatomy; Medical Specialties; California

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A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

Cooper, Thomas A. LaVeist, and Neil R. Powe. 2004. "Whole Body Donation for Medical Science: A Population-Based Study." Clinical Anatomy 17:570-577. Clay, Megan, and Walter Block. 2002. "A... View Details

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