PUBLICATIONS
You Only Die Once: Why Brain Death is Not the Death of a Human Being!
D. Alan Shewmon: [My argument] has revealed the total absence of any compelling philosophical or scientific reason to interpret brain-mediated somatic integration as constitutive of the [...]
You only die once: why brain death is not the death of a human being
D. Alan Shewmon [My argument] has revealed the total absence of any compelling philosophical or scientific reason to interpret brain-mediated somatic integration as constitutive of the [...]
Brain Death or Brain dying
D. Alan Shewmon, MD For the past 50 years, the medical profession has understood ‘‘brain death’’ to represent the endpoint of a neuropathologic vicious cycle. [...]
A holistic understanding of death
Doyen Nguyen: In the ongoing ‘brain death’ controversy, there has been a constant push for the use of the ‘higher brain’ formulation as the criterion for [...]
Pope John Paul II and the neurological standard for the determination of death
The concept of “brain death” (the neurological basis for legally declaring a person dead) has caused much controversy since its inception. In this regard, it [...]
Brain death and true patient care
DOYEN NGUYEN Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy Though legally accepted and widely practiced, the “brain death” standard for the determination of [...]
