A New Look at Death

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 252, Issue 5, 1984, Pages 680-682

  Joynt, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COMA; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DETERMINATION OF DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HARVARD COMMITTEE ON BRAIN DEATH; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MODEL LEGISLATION; STANDARDS; UNIFORM DETERMINATION OF DEATH ACT; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DETERMINATION OF DEATH; EEG; HARVARD COMMITTEE ON BRAIN DEATH; MODEL LEGISLATION; STANDARDS; UNIFORM DETERMINATION OF DEATH ACT;

BRAIN DEATH; COMA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 20TH CENT.; HUMAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0021754318     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1984.03350050068032     Document Type: Article

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