Annals of Medicine: As Good As Dead. / Gary Greenberg.
by Greenberg, Gary; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 75Family. Publisher: Greenberg/Gary, 2001ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Brain death | Death -- Defined | Death -- Proof and certification | Donation of organs, tissues, etc | Medical ethics | Organ donors | Transplantation of organs, tissues, etcDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Confusion about the concept of brain death is not unusual, even among the transplant professionals, surgeons, neurologists, and bioethicists who grapple with it regularly. Brain death is confusing because it's an artificial distinction constructed, more than thirty years ago, on a conceptional foundation that is unsound. Recently, some physicians have begun to suggest that brain-dead patients aren't really dead at all--that the concept is just the medical profession's way of dodging ethical questions about a practice that saves more than fifteen thousand lives a year." (NEW YORKER) The author disputes that individuals can ever be classified as "brain dead" and insinuates that the medical profession created the diagnosis in order to justify organ transplants from living bodies.
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Originally Published: Annals of Medicine: As Good As Dead, Aug. 6, 2001; pp. n.p..
"Confusion about the concept of brain death is not unusual, even among the transplant professionals, surgeons, neurologists, and bioethicists who grapple with it regularly. Brain death is confusing because it's an artificial distinction constructed, more than thirty years ago, on a conceptional foundation that is unsound. Recently, some physicians have begun to suggest that brain-dead patients aren't really dead at all--that the concept is just the medical profession's way of dodging ethical questions about a practice that saves more than fifteen thousand lives a year." (NEW YORKER) The author disputes that individuals can ever be classified as "brain dead" and insinuates that the medical profession created the diagnosis in order to justify organ transplants from living bodies.
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