Although there has been a worldwide debate, the idea that a human being with irreversible
loss of brain function is dead has been progressively accepted beginning in the early 1960s …

The “dead-donor rule” requires patients to be declared dead before the removal of life-
sustaining organs for transplantation. The concept of brain death was developed, in part, to …

Over the past several decades, the concept of brain death has become well entrenched
within the practice of medicine. At a practical level, this concept has been successful in …

Despite its familiarity and widespread acceptance, the concept of" brain death" remains
incoherent in theory and confused in practice. Moreover, the only purpose served by the …

T wo cases in which patients have been determined to be dead according to neurologic
criteria (“brain death”) have recently garnered national headlines. In Oakland, California …

Summary Franklin Miller, Robert Truog, and Seema Shah claim that brain death is not really
death and that interest in organ transplantation was the primary motivation behind its …

Brain death is a term commonly used to describe a condition in which the brain is completely
destroyed and in which cessation of function of all other organs is imminent and inevitable …

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 …

Beyond Brain Death offers a provocative challenge to one of the most widely accepted
conclusions of contemporary bioethics: the position that brain death marks the death of the …

The so-called brain death criterion according to which a man is dead when his total brain
has completely and irreversibly ceased to function is now widely accepted and has been …