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Death and legal fictions
- Correspondence to Seema K Shah, Department of Bioethics, Division of AIDS, National Institutes of Health, NIH Clinical Center, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; shahse{at}mail.nih.gov
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Death and legal fictions
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- Received May 13, 2011
- Accepted July 4, 2011
- First published August 2, 2011.
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November 21, 2011
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