It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma That Brain Death Is Biological Death

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Hastings Center Report 51 (4):18-21 (2021)
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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.

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Michael Nair-Collins
Florida State University
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DCDD Donors Are Not Dead.Ari Joffe - 2018 - Hastings Center Report 48 (S4):29-32.

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