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- Title
Definición y criterios relativos a la muerte.
- Authors
Mateos-Gómez, Humberto
- Abstract
The article presents the author's reflections on the definition of brain-death. The author considers the philosophical definition of the condition and discusses the diagnostic association between whole-brain death and destruction of the encephalon. He also refers to the definition of brain-death offered by the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School.
- Subjects
BRAIN death; DEATH (Biology); PHILOSOPHY of medicine; PROOF &; certification of death; HARVARD Medical School; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Archivos de Neurociencias, 2009, Vol 14, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
1028-5938
- Publication type
Article