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The Impending Collapse of the Whole‐Brain Definition of Death
Author(s) -
Veatch Robert M.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3562586
Subject(s) - brain dead , brain function , term (time) , commission , psychology , medicine , law , neuroscience , surgery , political science , physics , quantum mechanics , transplantation
No one really believes that literally all functions of the entire brain must be lost for an individual to be dead. A better definition of death involves a higher brain orientation.