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Crossing the Rubicon: Death in ‘The Year of the Transplant’

How death should be measured was a subject of intense debate during the late 1960s, and one in which transplant surgeons had a particular interest. Legislation required a doctor to first pronounce ‘extinct’ the patients from whom ‘spare parts’ were sought for grafting. But transplant surgeons increa...

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Published in:Med Hist
Main Author: MacDonald, Helen
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Cambridge University Press 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5206940/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27998333
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2016.103
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