Reconsidering Brain Death: A Lesson from Japan's Fifteen Years of Experience [Book Review]

Hastings Center Report 31 (4):41-46 (2012)
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Japan has been holding a nationwide debate over the nature of death for nearly twenty years. That debate led eventually to a law that gives citizens the opportunity to choose which of two views of death will apply to their own death. That law is now up for revision, and the debate is revving up.

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