Neuroscience and Brain Death Controversies: The Elephant in the Room
Journal of Religion and Health June 21, 2018 Joseph L. Verheijde, Mohamed Y. Rady, Michael Potts 46 citations
The conception and the determination of brain death continue to raise scientific, legal, philosophical, and religious controversies. While both the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research in 1981 and the President's Council on Bioethics in 2008 committed to a biological definition of death as the basis for the whole-brain death...