New from Hastings Bioethics Forum February 22, 2022
Proposal for Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act
By Bioethicists of the Pelligrino Center for Clinical Bioethics Published on February 18, 2022
Organ transplantation has saved many lives in the past half-century, and the majority of postmortem organ donations have occurred after a declaration of death by neurological criteria, or brain death. However, inconsistencies between the biological concept of death and the diagnostic protocols used to determine brain death-as well as questions about the underlying assumptions of brain death...
