When is "dead"?

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 14-21

  Youngner, Stuart J ^a   Arnold, Robert M ^a   DeVita, Michael A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; DEATH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE; MEDICAL ETHICS; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE;

BRAIN DEATH; DEATH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA; HUMANS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0033217249     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3527866     Document Type: Article

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