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Pro/con ethics debate: When is dead really dead?
Contemporary intensive care unit (ICU) medicine has complicated the issue of what constitutes death in a life support environment. Not only is the distinction between sapient life and prolongation of vital signs blurred but the concept of death itself has been made more complex. The demand for organ...
Autores principales: | Whetstine, Leslie, Streat, Stephen, Darwin, Mike, Crippen, David |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2005
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1414041/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16356234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3894 |
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