Making Progress on Death: Towards an Updated Normative Framework
Making Progress on Death: Towards an Updated Normative Framework
| Legal and medical experts and ethicists gathered to re-examine the neurological standard for the declaration of death, which remains a source of debate after 50 years. |
Fifty years after its inception, the current position on the Neurological Standard for Declaration of Death (NSDD) is subject to a number of persistent concerns and novel criticisms. There remains considerable public confusion both about the meaning of the term “brain dead” and about its...