R&amp;M Analysis Techniques For Fault-Tolerant Systems

Veatch, Michael H.; Calvo, Alberto B.; Mcmanus, John

doi:10.1109/rams.1984.764348

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“…He expressly rejected the idea that death should be related to an organism's "loss of the capacity to integrate bodily function" asserting that "man is, after all, something more than a sophisticated computer." 22 His project attempted not to reject brain death, but to refine the intuitive thinking underlying the brain death concept by emphasizing that it was the cerebral cortex that counted in a brain death concept and not the more primitive integrating brain structures.…”

Section: The Definition Of Deathmentioning

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The Whole-Brain Concept of Death Remains Optimum Public Policy

Bernat¹

2006

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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“Brain death,” the determination of human death by showing the irreversible loss of all clinical functions of the brain, has become a worldwide practice. A biophilosophical account of brain death requires four sequential tasks: (1) agreeing on the paradigm of death, a set of preconditions that frame the discussion; (2) determining the definition of death by making explicit the consensual concept of death; (3) determining the criterion of death that proves the definition has been fulfilled by being both necessary and sufficient for death; and (4) determining the tests of death for physicians to employ at the patient's bedside to demonstrate that the criterion of death has been fulfilled. The best definition of death is “the cessation of functioning of the organism as a whole.” The whole‐brain criterion is the only criterion that is both necessary and sufficient for death. Brain death tests are used only in the unusual case in which a patient's ventilation is being supported. Brain death critics have identified weaknesses in its formulation. But despite its shortcomings, the whole‐brain death formulation comprises a concept and public policy that make intuitive and practical sense and that has been well accepted by many societies.

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Section: The Definition Of Deathmentioning

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The Whole-Brain Concept of Death Remains Optimum Public Policy

Bernat¹

2006

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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“…Several reports have commented that the quality ofhealth care may deteriorate ifthe economic emphasis is too great (see e.g. Veatch, 1986). But, according to studies made no negative effects have been found (see Kahn et al, 1992, and a RAND study published in a special edition of the Journal of American Medical Association in 1990).…”

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%