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"They don't have to suffer for me": Why dialysis patients refuse offers of living donor kidneys

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Title

"They don't have to suffer for me": Why dialysis patients refuse offers of living donor kidneys

Description

Reports on patients' decisions to refuse living related donor (LRD) kidney offers and concludes that social relations, emotions, and ethnomedical beliefs play an important role in patients' treatment decisions.

Creator

Elisa J. Gordon

Source

Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 15.2. June 2001. p. 245-267.
GN296 MAQ NO.2 2001

Date

2001

Contributor

seah

Format

Article journal