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"The Most Gentle of Lethal Methods": The Question of Retained Consciousness Following Decapitation
Since the development of the infamous guillotine in the French Revolution, physicians have debated how long consciousness persists in decapitated heads. Fueled by anecdotes of severed heads that blink, blush, and appear to retain intelligence, numerous experiments have investigated this macabre subj...
Autor principal: | Turner, Matthew D |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cureus
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9930870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36819446 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33830 |
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