TY - BOOK ID - 143045201 TI - Philosophical, medical, and legal controversies about brain death PY - 2024 SN - 9781009323352 1009323350 9781009517218 9781009323345 1009323326 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Dead bodies (Law) KW - Death. KW - Brain death KW - Moral and ethical aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143045201 AB - This Element considers current legal, ethical, metaphysical, and medical controversies concerning brain death. It examines the implicit metaphysical and moral commitments and dualism implied by neurological criteria for death. When these commitments and worldview are not shared by patients and surrogates, they give rise to distrust in healthcare providers and systems, and to injustice, particularly when medicolegal definitions of death are coercively imposed on those who reject them. Ethical obligations to respect persons and patient autonomy, promote patient-centered care, foster and maintain trust, and respond to the demands of justice provide compelling ethical reasons for recognizing reasonable objections. Each section illustrates how seemingly academic debates about brain death have real, on-the-ground implications for patients and their families. ER -