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- Title
Brain Death at Fifty: Exploring Consensus, Controversy, and Contexts.
- Authors
Truog, Robert D.; Berlinger, Nancy; Zacharias, Rachel L.; Solomon, Mildred Z.
- Abstract
This special report is published in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the "Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death," a landmark document that proposed a new way to define death, with implications that advanced the field of organ transplantation. This remarkable success notwithstanding, the concept has raised lasting questions about what it means to be dead. Is death defined in terms of the biological failure of the organism to maintain integrated functioning? Can death be declared on the basis of severe neurological injury even when biological functions remain intact? Is death essentially a social construct that can be defined in different ways, based on human judgment? These issues, and more, are discussed and debated in this report by leading experts in the field, many of whom have been engaged with this topic for decades.
- Subjects
NERVOUS system injuries; BRAIN death laws; BRAIN injuries; BRAIN death; CARDIAC arrest; CONSENSUS (Social sciences); CONVALESCENCE; LOSS of consciousness; MEDICAL schools; ORGAN donors; RESPIRATORY insufficiency; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; XENOGRAFTS; ATTITUDES toward death; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2018, Vol 48, pS2
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hast.942