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... Death Act by an unconscious or seriously incapacitated patient require additional safeguards. Adequate due process should be assured before Natural Death Act provisions are applied to incompetent persons or minors. Substitution of brain death for the common law definition would permit withdrawal...

... between theory and policy in declaring death. Gervais’s complex philosophical argument may be summa- rized as follows: Underlying both the brain-death criterion and the neocortical- Book Reviews 827 death criterion is a basic conception of human beings...

.... New England Journal of Medicine 326 : 401 -403. Veatch , R. 1975 . The Whole-Brain-Oriented Concept of Death: An Outmoded Philosophical Formulation. Journal of Thanatology 3 ( 1 ): 13 -30. Commentary The Quinlan Case...

... demonstrated that the po- tential pool of donors is large and have documented the many reasons for the low rate of organ retrieval. ’ Although this problem was recognized twenty years ago, it was felt at that time that the rate of organ retrieval would be improved by a combination of (a) brain death...

... the family knows the donor's feelings about donation and giving per- mission when they do not know. The surveys also do not examine the influence of the difficulties of explaining brain death to grieving families. We explore all these issues and report on variations of opinion within the public...

.... Wikler , D. , and A. J. Weisbard. 1989 . Appropriate Confusion over “Brain Death”. Journal of the American Medical Association 261 ( 15 ): 2246 . Younger , S. J. , C. S. Landefeld, C. J. Coulton, B. W. Juknialis, and M. Leary. 1989 . “Brain Death” and Organ Retrieval. Journal...

... and verbal descriptions of the “unborn” at two-week increments. States sometimes additionally specified that information on fetal development must include statements regarding the functionality of certain physical structures at various gestational ages, such as heart, brain, or lung development...

...: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Dis- ease. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. 166 pp. $16.95 cloth. Laurence Miller. Inner Natures: Brain, Self, and Personality. New York: St. Martin’s, 1990. 287 pp. $19.95 cloth. Gerald May. Addiction and Grace: Love...

... , Martin . 1988 . Back from the Grave: Recurring Controversies over Defining and Diagnosing Death in History. In Death: Beyond Whole-Brain Criteria, ed. Richard M. Zaner. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Perr , Irwin N. 1977 . Murder, Malpractice, and the Quinlan Case. Journal of Legal...

...-have proved less useful than studies scrutinizing the death circumstances of actual and potential donors, as conducted by the CDC.27 These studies indicate that such deaths are most commonly caused by (1) motor vehicle and other accidents, (2) brain tumors, (3) poisonings, and (4...

... be determined using brain-death criteria. Once a neurosurgeon (or, less often, a neurologist) has declared brain death, the family must be notified. Most OPAs prefer the physician or the nurse to have prepared the family for the possibility of donation earlier, during the time they were advising...

... : 90 -95. Mark , V. , W. H. Sweet, and F. R. Ervin. 1967 . The Role of Brain Disease in Urban Riots and Urban Violence. Journal of the American Medical Association 201 : 895 . Miller , A. 1967 . The Lobotomy Patient-A Decade Later: A Follow-up Study of a Research Project Started...

... of “brain death” as an acceptable definition of patient death (Beecher et al. 1968 . That now widely accepted criterion declared patient death when irreversible loss of all brain function precluded life without ongoing cardiopulmonary support. Organ procurement organizations and hospitals have used...

... for Learning Research in developmental neuroscience shows that learning starts at birth and that brain development in the fi rst years of life is both rapid and extensive. Early sensory and emotional experience directly affects both the absolute number of brain cells and the connections between them...

... “birth-related neurological injury.” The injury must be (1) to the brain or spinal cord of a (2) live infant (3) weighing at least 2,500 grams at birth. It must be (4) caused by oxygen deprivation or mechanical injury and (5) occur in the course of labor, delivery, or resus...

... Renal Disease Program Highlights. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. King , K. , and C. Grady. 1985 . Review of States' Brain Death, Organ Donor and Procurement Legislation. Washington, DC: Intergovernmental Health Policy Project, George Washington University...

.... Patrice L. Spath, ed. Chicago: American Hospital Association, 1999. 173 pp. $32.95 paper. A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback. Jim Robbins. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2000. 270 pp. $24.00 cloth. Technology and the Future of Health Care: Preparing for the Next...

... or low-lesion myelo- meningocele,6 as well as those with severe brain damage7 or with the prognosis of imminent death despite aggressive medical care. Doctors involved in caring for such newborns have often recommended the widest possible discretion for parents and physicians facing...

..., 1977 . Guttmacher , S. , and R. Danielson. “Changes in Cuban Health Care: An Argument Against Technological Pessimism.” International Journal of Health Services 7 : 383 -400, 1977 . Horn , J. J. “The Medical ‘Brain Drain’ and Health Priorities in Latin America.” International...

... damage to every aspect of their brain (Menikoff 2006). As a result of the injuries, these individuals were left with no brain function whatsoever and no hope for recovery. When patients were in that condition, the law allowed hospitals to ask individuals’ families or other legal decision...