@article{ref1,
title="Brain death is not death: a critique of the concept, criterion, and tests of brain death",
journal="Reviews in the neurosciences",
year="2009",
author="Joffe, Ari R.",
volume="20",
number="3-4",
pages="187-198",
abstract="This paper suggests that there are insurmountable problems for brain death as a criterion of death. The following are argued: (1) brain death does not meet an accepted concept of death, and is not the loss of integration of the organism as a whole; (2) brain death does not meet the criterion of brain death itself; brain death is not the irreversible loss of all critical functions of the entire brain; and (3) brain death may, however rarely, be reversible. I conclude that brain death, while a devastating neurological state with a dismal prognosis, is not death.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0334-1763",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}