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Re-framing ‘Stem Cell Tourism’

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In Australia, in recent years, there have been a number of news reports of patients

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  1. Sociology School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    Alan Petersen, Casimir MacGregor & Jane Brophy

  2. Centre for Stem Cell Systems Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Megan Munsie & Claire Tanner

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Petersen, A., Munsie, M., Tanner, C., MacGregor, C., Brophy, J. (2017). Re-framing ‘Stem Cell Tourism’. In: Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope. Health, Technology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47043-0_8

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