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Brainstem Death Is Dead. Long Live Brainstem Death!

Dale Gardiner & Andrew McGee

American Journal of Bioethics 24 (1):114-116 (2024)

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An Overview of Ethical Issues Raised by Medicolegal Challenges to Death by Neurologic Criteria in the United Kingdom and a Comparison to Management of These Challenges in the USA.Ariane Lewis - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (1):79-96.details Although medicolegal challenges to the use of neurologic criteria to declare death in the USA have been well-described, the management of court cases in the United Kingdom about objections to the use of neurologic criteria to declare death has not been explored in the bioethics or medical literature. This article (1) reviews conceptual, medical and legal differences between death by neurologic criteria (DNC) in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world to contextualize medicolegal challenges to DNC; (2) summarizes (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 15 citations
(1 other version)Brain death without definitions.Winston Chiong - 2005 - Hastings Center Report 35 (6):20-30.details : Most of the world now accepts the idea, first proposed four decades ago, that death means "brain death." But the idea has always been open to criticism because it doesn't square with all of our intuitions about death. In fact, none of the possible definitions of death quite works. Death, perhaps surprisingly, eludes definition, and "brain death" can be accepted only as a refinement of what is in fact a fuzzy concept. Download Export citation Bookmark 34 citations
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism.Andrew McGee, Dale Gardiner & Melanie Jansen - 2023 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 48 (5):434-452.details This paper provides a new rationale for equating brain death with the death of the human organism, in light of well-known criticisms made by Alan D Shewmon, Franklin Miller and Robert Truog and a number of other writers. We claim that these criticisms can be answered, but only if we accept that we have slightly redefined the concept of death when equating brain death with death simpliciter. Accordingly, much of the paper defends the legitimacy of redefining death against objections, before (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations
Controversies in the Determination of Death. A White Paper.Usa The President’S. Council On Bioethics - 2009 - Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 14 (1):403-404.details Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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