RT Article
T1 It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma That Brain Death Is Biological Death
JF The Hastings Center report
VO 51
IS 4
SP 18
OP 21
A1 Miller, Franklin G.
A1 Nair-Collins, Michael
A1 Truog, Robert D.
LA English
PB Wiley
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/176293650X
AB 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.
K1 Organ Transplantation
K1 Pregnancy
K1 Brain Death
K1 determination of death
DO 10.1002/hast.1268