Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of criticism and scrutiny of the bioethics movement. Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death looks at the work of the Committee in a way that has not been attempted before in terms of tracing back the context of its own sources-the reasoning of it Chair, Henry K Beecher, and the care of patients i
Strange business -- The justification : Beecher's ethics -- The law -- The criteria I : the waking brain--brainstem and the discourse of consciousness -- The criteria II : the working brain : the comatose patient and the biology of consciousness -- Brain death after Beecher and the limits of bioethics
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