Clinical Trials Support Division, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research.
J Law Med Ethics. 2010 Fall;38(3):667-83. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2010.00520.x.
Legally defining "death" in terms of brain death unacceptably obscures a value judgment that not all reasonable people would accept. This is disingenuous, and it results in serious moral flaws in the medical practices surrounding organ donation. Public policy that relies on the whole-brain concept of death is therefore morally flawed and in need of revision.
从法律上定义脑死亡为“死亡”，不可避免地掩盖了一个并非所有合理的人都能接受的价值判断。这是虚伪的，导致了围绕器官捐赠的医疗实践中的严重道德缺陷。因此，依赖全脑概念的公共政策在道德上是有缺陷的，需要修订。
