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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
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Where's Waldo? The ‘decapitation gambit’ and the definition of death
- Correspondence to Dr John P Lizza, Department of Philosophy, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA 19530, USA; lizza{at}kutztown.edu
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Where's Waldo? The ‘decapitation gambit’ and the definition of death
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- Received July 8, 2011
- Revised July 25, 2011
- Accepted July 29, 2011
- First published October 11, 2011.
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November 21, 2011
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