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The reversibility of death.
The ordinary concept of death is analysed and compared with revisionary medical definitions, especially those based on irreversible loss of brain function. Prior critics of revisionary definitions have focused on the locus, the brain; I am concerned with the irreversibility condition. I argue that 1) the irreversibility condition is ambiguous, 2) it has unacceptable epistemic and other conseque...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0882-7397
DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x00029319