Total brain death: a reply to Alan Shewmon.

Recovery from "brain death": a neurologist's apologia.

Integrated But Not Whole? Applying an Ontological Account of Human Organismal Unity to the Brain Death Debate1

As is clear in the 2008 report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, the brain death debate is plagued by ambiguity in the use of such terms as “integration” and “wholeness.” Addressing this problem, I offer a plausible ontological account of organismal unity by drawing on the work of Hoffman and Rosenkrantz. I then apply that account to the case of brain death and conclude that a brai-dead ...

Meta-analysis and conceptual consequences

Neurology D. Alan Shewmon Chronic "brain death": Meta-analysis and conceptual consequences This information is current as of September 7, 2009 http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/full/51/6/1538 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0028-3878. Online ISSN: 1526-632X. since 1951, it i...

Integrated But Not Whole? Applying an Ontological Account of Human Organismal Unity to the Brain Death Debate.

As is clear in the 2008 report of the President's Council on Bioethics, the brain death debate is plagued by ambiguity in the use of such key terms as 'integration' and 'wholeness'. Addressing this problem, I offer a plausible ontological account of organismal unity drawing on the work of Hoffman and Rosenkrantz, and then apply that account to the case of brain death, concluding that a brain de...

Brain death: can it be resuscitated?

Why is a patient with a destroyed brain considered dead rather than moribund and irreversibly comatose? The world has been grappling with this question for the past four decades with little success. The recently released white paper of the President's Council on Bioethics is in many respects a refreshing, thoughtful, and comprehensive reexamination of this complex topic. It offers a very helpfu...