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Lost in Translation

Cultural Obstructions Impede Living Kidney Donation among Minority Ethnic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

ANNE HAMBRO ALNAES
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Special Section: Empirical Ethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 2012 , pp. 505 - 516
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