Since the concept of death by neurologic criteria (DNC) or “brain death” was articulated by
the Harvard Ad Hoc Committee in 1968, efforts to establish and uphold DNC as equivalent …

The debate over the determination of death has been raging for more than fifty years. Since
then, objections against the diagnosis of brain death from family members of those …

This article addresses the following question: should physicians obtain consent from the
patient (through an advance directive) or their surrogate decision-maker to perform the …

The overwhelming weight of authority in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom
holds that clinicians are not legally or ethically required to obtain family consent before …

Abstract The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) provides that “an individual who
has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or (2) …

Abstract 50 years after its introduction, brain death remains controversial among scholars.
The debates focus on one question: is brain death a good criterion for determining death …

Brain death has been one of the most controversial issues in the medical and bioethical
debate globally for more than fifty years. There is no unanimous acceptance of the …

Establishment of a consistent and acceptable clinical definition of death is an ongoing
challenge due in part to evolving medical technologies and practices of deceased organ …

It is time to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) to assure a consistent
nationwide approach to consent for brain death testing. Only two of 56U. S. jurisdictions …

Laura Specker Sullivan (2022) makes a fairly compelling case for the value of the
perspectives of Buddhist practitioners in neuroethics. In this study, Tibetan Buddhist monks …