Shouldn't Dead Be Dead?: The Search for a Uniform Definition of Death.

Ariane Lewis Katherine Cahn-Fuller Arthur Caplan

J Law Med Ethics

Ariane Lewis, M.D., has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) and a Medical Degree from Tulane University School of Medicine (New Orleans, Louisiana). She is an Assistant Professor at NYU Langone Medical Center in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery (Division of Neurocritical Care) and an affiliate of the Department of Population Health (Division of Bioethics). Katherine Cahn-Fuller, M.A., has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) and an M.A. in Bioethics from NYU (New York, New York). She is an M.D. candidate at Georgetown University School of Medicine (Washington, District of Columbia). Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) and a Ph.D in Philosophy from Columbia University (New York, New York). He is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and Head of the Division of Bioethics at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Published: March 2017

In 1968, the definition of death in the United States was expanded to include not just death by cardiopulmonary criteria, but also death by neurologic criteria. We explore the way the definition has been modified by the medical and legal communities over the past 50 years and address the medical, legal and ethical controversies associated with the definition at present, with a particular highlight on the Supreme Court of Nevada Case of Aden Hailu.

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