Deliberating Death in the Summer of 1968
- 2 August 2018
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 379 (5), 412-415
- https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1802952
Abstract
In 1968, an ad hoc Harvard committee defined what we now accept as brain death. Unlike groups convened elsewhere the same year to discuss the same question, the Harvard committee focused principally on defining brain death rather than on organ procurement.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Twenty-second World Medical AssemblyBMJ, 1968
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