Brain-death as an anthropological or as
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Hans-Bernhard Wuermeling
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Article
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1994
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In 1968, when the Harvard Committee defined brain-death to characterize irreversible coma, the question of when a doctor might stop resuscitation remained unresolved: braindeath is a safe, but not a sufficient criterion. Furthermore, the committee defined brain-death to be the death of man without a