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Watanabe, Y. (2000). Brain Death and Cardiac Transplantation: Historical Background and Unsettled Controversies in Japan. In: Beyond Brain Death. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46882-4_7
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