Man's Concern with Death
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In the Children's Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, there is a huge dinosaur's bone. Beneath are three notices? 'This is a dinosaur's bone' 'Touch it' 'Now you can say you have touched a dinosaur's bone' It is with the same feeling of awe that we may take a look at another fascinating old horror?death, as it is presented to us in this wideranging book. In the first of three sections, A. Keith Mant writes sensibly and reassuringly about the medical meaning of death, John Hinton clarifies the issues involved in the controversy between those who believe that the doctor should
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