Medical diagnosis of death in adults: historical contributions to current controversies.

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  The Lancet

• Publication date

  1996-11-02

• Fields of study

  Medicine, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)04015-9PMID 8898042
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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