The Impending Collapse of the Whole-Brain Definition of Death

Hastings Center Report 23 (4):18 (1993)
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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.

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10.2307/3562586

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reprint Veatch, Robert M. (2009) "The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death". In Lizza, John P., Defining the beginning and end of life: readings on personal identity and bioethics, pp. 18-24: Johns Hopkins University Press (2009)

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