TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Brain death is not death: a critique of the concept, criterion, and tests of brain death
JO  - Reviews in the neurosciences
A1  - Joffe, Ari R.
SP  - 187
EP  - 198
VL  - 20
IS  - 3-4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0334-1763
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -