Contemporary controversies in the definition of death

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue C, 2009, Pages 21-31

  Bernat, James L ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

brain death; criterion of death; definition of death; higher brain formulation; organ donation after circulatory death; organism as a whole

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEATH; BREATHING; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; METAPHYSICS; ORGAN DONOR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CIRCULATION; NOMENCLATURE;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BRAIN DEATH; DEATH; HUMANS; RESPIRATION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 73949091569     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17703-8     Document Type: Review

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