A Defense of the Whole-Brain Concept of Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20335344 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James L Bernat (0000-0003-1128-0442, Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 14 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3527567 |
| PMID | 9589289 |
| OpenAlex | W2036192136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 4 |
The concept of whole-brain death is under attack again. Scholars are arguing that the concept of brain death per se--regardless of the focus on "higher," "stem" or "whole"--is fundamentally flawed. These scholars have identified what they believe are serious discrepancies between the definition and criterion of brain death, and have pointed out that medical professionals and lay persons remain confused about its meaning. Yet whole-brain death remains the standard for determining death in much of the Western world and its defenders believe this concept best maps onto our everyday conception of death
Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Meaning (existential) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Mort cérébrale et mort de l’esprit
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The Ethics of Uncertainty
The Ethics of Killing
Death Determination, the Dying Process and the Dead Donor Rule
A structured analysis of the concept of brain death
Saving the debate
Safeguarding the dead donor rule in the age of normothermic regional perfusion
Diagnosing death
Death and Irreversibility
Abandoning the Dead Donor Rule
Not All Killings Are Equally Wrong
Brain Death
DCDD Donors Are Not Dead
Taking Science Seriously in the Debate on Death and Organ Transplantation
The Good Death
The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death
Visibly Dead
The Demise of Brain Death
The Definition of Death
| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 0,81 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |