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The death of death rates? [PDF]

open access: possibleBMJ, 2015
Using mortality as a quality indicator for hospitals The history of medicine can be characterised as a long struggle against ignorance and ineptitude.1 In revealing the complexity of human disease, medical science has chipped away at the former while increasing the risk of the latter.
Alan Maynard, Tim Doran, Karen Bloor
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Death Without Weeping

, 2023
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and ...
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
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The Death of Death [PDF]

open access: possible, 2004
The current definitions of brain death are predicated on the prognostic observation that brain dead patients would quickly die even with intensive care. But this is now shown to be untrue.1–4 Neuroremediation technologies and advances in intensive care will make it increasingly possible to keep alive the bodies of patients who would currently be ...
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Death receptors: signaling and modulation.

Science, 1998
Apoptosis is a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number in tissues and to eliminate individual cells that threaten the animal's survival. Certain cells have unique sensors, termed death receptors, on their surface.
A. Ashkenazi, V. Dixit
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“Brain Death” is not Death

2004
We draw attention to differences and difficulties in language and in concepts between “brain death” and true death that was published 24 years ago.1 We also focus on failure to utilize the scientific method, sound reasoning, and available medical technology in the determination of one of the two most important states known to man: death.
Walt F. Weaver, Paul A. Byrne
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Mitochondrial membrane permeabilization in cell death.

Physiological Reviews, 2007
Irrespective of the morphological features of end-stage cell death (that may be apoptotic, necrotic, autophagic, or mitotic), mitochondrial membrane permeabilization (MMP) is frequently the decisive event that delimits the frontier between survival and ...
G. Kroemer, L. Galluzzi, C. Brenner
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