Brain death: resolving inconsistencies in the ethical declaration of death

Accuracy of cause of death in hospital death declaration forms.

Death declaration forms are legal records of death, necessary for burial or cremation of the dead and for medico-legal procedures concerning insurance and inher­ itance. As the forms include a section dealing with "cause of death", they can be used for compiling mortality statis­ tics in medical research and health policy planning. In the section dealing with "cause of death" doctors are expect...

Medical and ethical dilemma in brain death.

For centuries, death has been defined, medically speaking, as the irreversible cessation of breathing and of nervous and cardiac activity. What radically changed this definition was the introduction of the concept "brain death" in 1968, by the "Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School". According to it, the irreversible coma was associated with brain death and considered to be a criterion...

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Death, Brain Death, and the Death of Death: Death as a Concept in Continuing Evolution

Brain death: recent ethical and religious considerations in Iran.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a long history of medicine. The principles derived from core Islamic teachings provide a comprehensive moral, ethical, and legal framework for the practice of medicine. The issue of brain death has significant impact on the procurement of organs from cadavers. It is a major subject of debate and interest to bioscientists, legal experts, religious scholars, and t...