Article info
PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
Individual choice in the definition of death
- Correspondence to: A Bagheri Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University, Sakyo-Ku 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan; bagheri{at}research.mbox.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Citation
Individual choice in the definition of death
Publication history
- Received January 16, 2006
- Accepted April 24, 2006
- Revised April 21, 2006
- First published February 28, 2007.
Online issue publication
April 27, 2016
Request permissions
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Copyright information
Copyright 2007 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
Other content recommended for you
- Death, dying and donation: organ transplantation and the diagnosis of death
- Should individuals choose their definition of death?
- Theological reflections on donation after circulatory death: the wisdom of Paul Ramsey and Moshe Feinstein
- Organismal death, the dead-donor rule and the ethics of vital organ procurement
- The Declaration of Sydney on human death
- Defining death in non-heart beating organ donors
- Defining death: when physicians and families differ
- Depictions of ‘brain death’ in the media: medical and ethical implications
- Reply to: Defining death: when physicians and families differ
- The concept of brain death did not evolve to benefit organ transplants