One time when I did a CNN interview segment dealing with the Terri Schiavo case, a
reporter asked me a challenging question. He wondered why Catholics have to do …

Bioethicist Alexander Capron began a recent article on the subject of brain death by noting
that" If one subject in health law and bioethics can be said to be at once well settled and …

The definition of death is one of the oldest and most enduring problems in biophilosophy
and bioethics. Serious controversies over formally defining death began with the invention of …

What does it mean to be dead or to die? How can we know that someone is dead? We all
have a basic understanding of death: we “know it when we see it,” so to speak. There seems …

In 1968, the Harvard Medical School Ad Hoc Committee to Examine the Definition of Brain
Death proposed whole brain death as the criterion for pronouncing a person dead (Harvard …

Brain death is an unnatural phenomenon first described thirty years ago contemporaneously
with the development of the artificial ventilator. For the first time, heartbeat, breathing, and …

In our commentary we concentrate on his claim that the justification of brain death is the
cessation of the organism as a whole, a view we believe is inadequate. We offer an …

Michael Nair-Collins and Franklin Miller are right to emphasise that, in order to deliberate
responsibly about ethical and legal questions related to brain death and organ donation, it is …

Though the entire article by Rodrıguez-Arias and colleagues (2011) is worthy of discussion
and commentary, we wish to focus on the role of brain functioning in relation to medical …

We seek to change the conversation about brain death by highlighting the distinction
between brain death as a biological concept versus brain death as a legal status. The fact …