Mozart's Requiem–Liver Transplantation in 1988

Liver transplantation is one of the most spectacular of surgical achievements. It is a demanding and expensive procedure, requiring great surgical skill and a great depth of supporting services. Precisely because it is a procedure at the leading edge of medicine, more and more units in developed cou...

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Autor principal: Little, J. M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1990
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2282327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1990/69704
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Sumario:Liver transplantation is one of the most spectacular of surgical achievements. It is a demanding and expensive procedure, requiring great surgical skill and a great depth of supporting services. Precisely because it is a procedure at the leading edge of medicine, more and more units in developed countries are pressing to be allowed to carry it out. But there are many moral and ethical problems, some of which can be usefully examined using a “Mozart model” as proposed by Starzl.

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