The 50-Year Legacy of the Harvard Report on Brain Death

This Viewpoint discusses the the ethical challenge of defining death in persons with irreversible coma, legalization of the definition of brain death in the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act, and current implications of the definition for decisions about life support, organ transplantation, and newer genetic technologies.
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research