Vol. 13 No. 1 (2020): The Gift of Life
Articles

The Gift of Life: Social & Cultural Perspectives on Organ Donation

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Indranil Chakravorty MBBS PhD FRCP
St George's University Hospital, London, UK
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.38192/13.1.2

Published 2020-04-18

Keywords

  • organ donation,
  • Social perspectives,
  • BAME

How to Cite

Chakravorty, I. (2020). The Gift of Life: Social & Cultural Perspectives on Organ Donation. Sushruta Journal of Health Policy & Opinion, 13(1), 10–12. https://doi.org/10.38192/13.1.2

Abstract

Social and cultural perspectives explaining the lower availability of organs donors amongst BAME communites and measures to tackle this variation. 

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