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Foreword |
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The Heart of the Matter, John Andrew Armour |
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Determining Death: is Brain Death Reliable?, Rainer Beckmann |
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A Brief Summary of Catholic Doctrine Regarding Human Life, |
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Fabian W. Bruskewitz |
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Death: the Absence of Life, Paul A. Byrne |
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Genuine Science or False Philosophy?, Roberto de Mattei |
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What is 'Brain Death'? A British Physician's View, David W Evans |
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Personal Testimony on the Understanding of Brain Death, |
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Joseph C. Evers |
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The Apnea Test - a Bedside Lethal 'Disaster' to Avoid a Legal |
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'Disaster' in the Operating Room, Cicero Galli Coimbra |
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Brain Death. A United Kingdom Anaesthetist's View, |
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David J. Hill |
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The Beginning and the End of Life. Toward Philosophical Consistency, |
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Michael Potts |
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On 'Brain Death' in Brief Philosophical "Arguments" against |
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Equating it with Actual Death and Responses to "Arguments" |
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in Favour of such an Equation, Josef Seifert |
189 |
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Brain-body Disconnection: Implications for the Theoretical |
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Basis of 'Brain Death', D. Alan Shewmon |
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Is Brain Death the Death of the Human Being? |
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On the Current State of Debate, Robert Spaemann |
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A Law of Life, Legality vs. Morality, Wolfgang Waldstein |
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Controversies on Brain Death in Japan and our Seven-Year Experience |
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after the Enforcement of the Organ Transplantation Law, |
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Yoshio Watanabe |
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Unpaired Vital Organ Transplantation. Secular Altruism? |
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Has Killing become a virtue?, Walt Franklin Weaver |
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The Concept of Brain Death and the Death of Man, Ralph Weber |
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