Project sunshine and the slippery slope: The ethics of tissue sampling for strontium‐90Footnote*

An earlier version of this article appeared as an appendix to the report of the Review Group on Retention of Organs at Postmortem chaired by Professor Sheila McLean (Ref.1).

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