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1 - The Legal Transplants Debate: Getting Beyond the Impasse?

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2019

Vito Breda
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University of Southern Queensland
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Summary

The debate about legal transplants is very well knownUnfortunately that debate, while familiar, or at least familiarly confusing to many, has become trapped in a number of rather fixed binaries. It appears to have failed to achieve either resolution or forward movement. And this is in spite of a number of laudable attempts to untie the knot.

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