No Country for Old Laws: Why the Effort to Revise the UDDA Reveals the Social Weakness of Medicine in the US

American Journal of Bioethics 24 (1):108-110 (2024)
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Arian Lewis provides a comprehensive overview of how the United Kingdom’s medicolegal context manages challenges to determining death by neurologic criteria (DNC) and suggests that a well-crafted s...

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Case for a statutory 'definition of death'.P. D. Skegg - 1976 - Journal of Medical Ethics 2 (4):190.
The definition of death.I. Kennedy - 1977 - Journal of Medical Ethics 3 (1):5-6.

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