This review addresses the diagnosis of insensibility and death in various species so as to
evaluate the validity of the current criteria used to judge death in hunted whales by the …

OBJECTIVES. Because the concept of brain death is difficult to define and to apply, we
hypothesized that significant variability exists in pediatric brain death determination and …

In this introductory text on thanatology, Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question
of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with the denial of death in the human experience …

The first criteria for the determination of brain death were developed in 1968 in part to
address concerns that had arisen with the retrieval of organs for transplantation. Despite …

In trying to overcome the growing gap between demand and offer of organs for
transplantation, solutions are usually searched for by comparing successful and …

Recent advances in medical technology have provided healthcare staff with the possibility of
maintaining the life of a brain-dead pregnant woman on life-support in order to achieve …

“I think there'sa big strong belief in [...] the community… and maybe it's in the world at large
that somehow the doctors are more concerned about harvesting the organs than what's best …

Grundlage dieser Leitlinie ist die beste verfügbare" Evidenz", die von den Mitgliedern des
Redaktionskomittees sorgfältig zusammengetragen und bewertet wurde. Nicht in jedem …

“Persistently unresolved” features of the definition of brain death form a supporting
foundation for Truog and Robinson (1) to argue that the ethics of organ donation should …

Comparative organ donation rates are expressed per million population and by this
measurement, Canada lags behind other countries. These estimates do not account for …