Defining death : the case for choice /
For most of human history there was little question about whether someone was dead or alive--a heartbeat or a pulse, or a foggy mirror under the nostrils, provided sufficient evidence. But in the mid-20th century, with new technologies and medical interventions that prolonged the dying process, the...
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
[2016]
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