Publication

1996-04-05 - Routledge

Language

English

Word Count

81,000 words, Guess

Page Count

324 pages

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First Sentence

The quest for a definition of death, adequate to those patients whose condition is 'masked' by the technology if intensive-therapy units, has become the quest for the ultimate seat of human life: for the physiological and anatomical core of human life, whose loss constitutes the death of the human being as a whole.

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Other Editions

  • Death Rites: Law and Ethics at the End of LifeRoutledge1996-04-05

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