%0 Journal Article
%T Brain death is not death: a critique of the concept, criterion, and tests of brain death
%J Reviews in the neurosciences
%D 2009
%A Joffe, Ari R.
%V 20
%N 3-4
%P 187-198
%X 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>
%G en
%I Freund Publishing
%@ 0334-1763
%U http://dx.doi.org/