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Year: 2010, Volume: 0, Issue: 1
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  • Mike Collins, Reevaluating the Dead Donor Rule.
    The dead donor rule justifies current practice in organ procurement for transplantation, and states that organ donors must be dead prior to donation. The majority of organ donors are diagnosed as having suffered brain death, and hence are declared dead by neurological criteria. However, a significant amount of unrest in both the philosophical and medical literature has surfaced since this practice began forty years ago. I argue that, first, declaring death by neurological criteria is both unreliable and unjustified, but further, (...)
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