Organ donation after the circulatory determination of death requires the permanent
cessation of circulation while organ donation after the brain determination of death requires …

The World Brain Death Project (WBDP) is a 2020 international consensus statement that
provides historical background and recommendations on brain death/death by neurologic …

Abstract In 2017, Michael Nair-Collins formulated his Transitivity Argument which claimed
that brain-dead patients are alive according to a concept that defines death in terms of the …

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According to the mainstream bioethical stance, death constitutes the termination of an
organism. This essay argues that such an understanding of death is inappropriate in the …

When we consider some controversies among scholars about whether brainstem death is
death, we should clearly identify what the controversy is about. Is it about whether the …

Twenty years ago, Eelco Wijdicks published a seminal inventory of brain death worldwide
and drew attention to two seemingly contradictory positions: that brain death was an …

Two of the lead articles in this issue examine the emerging practice of organ procurement by
normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) in terms of whether or not these patients are “dead” …

Abstract “Death” sits at the center of this issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.
Each article, in its own fashion, touches on the problems of thinking about the nature of …

Organ donation of vital organs can save lives and/or improve the quality of life for people
with end-stage organ disease. With this in mind, in this issue of Pediatric Critical Care …