Are DCD Donors Dead?

Hastings Center Report 40 (3):24-31 (2010)
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Donation after cardiac death protocols are widely accepted, so arguments for them have apparently been persuasive. But this does not mean they are sound.

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10.1353/hcr.0.0270

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A Defense of the Whole‐Brain Concept of Death.James L. Bernat - 1998 - Hastings Center Report 28 (2):14-23.
The Dead Donor Rule.John A. Robertson - 1999 - Hastings Center Report 29 (6):6.
Are Organ Donors after Cardiac Death Really Dead?James L. Bernat - 2006 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 17 (2):122-132.

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