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- Title
It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma That Brain Death Is Biological Death.
- Authors
Miller, Franklin G.; Nair‐Collins, Michael; Truog, Robert D.
- Abstract
Drawing on a recent case report of a pregnant, brain‐dead woman who gave birth to a healthy child after over seven months of intensive care treatment, this essay rejects the established doctrine in medicine that brain death constitutes the biological death of the human being. The essay describes three policy options with respect to determination of death and vital organ transplantation in the case of patients who are irreversibly comatose but remain biologically alive.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BRAIN death; HEALTH policy; NEUROLOGY; EVIDENCE-based medicine; MEDICAL ethics; DEATH; ORGAN donation; ATTITUDES toward death
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2021, Vol 51, Issue 4, p18
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hast.1268