Towards an Effective Definition of Death and Disorders of Consciousness

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1. CONTENTS
2. Towards an Effective Definition of Death and Disorders of Consciousness
3. Networks of Conscious Experience: Computational Neuroscience in Understanding Life, Death, and Consciousness
4. Brain Anatomy, Cerebral Blood Flow, and Connectivity in the Transition from PVS to MCS
5. Diagnostic Value of Neurophysiological Tests in the Diagnosis of Brain Death - Do We Need Changes in National Guidelines?
6. Brain Death is Not Death: A Critique of the Concept, Criterion, and Tests of Brain Death
7. Irreversibility: Cardiac Death Versus Brain Death
8. Persistent Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States
9. The Utility of Median Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in Anoxic-Ischemic Coma
10. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Disorders of Consciousness
11. Recommendations for the Use of Transcranial Doppler Uttrasonography to Determine the Existence of Cerebral Circulatory Arrest as Diagnostic Support for Brain Death
12. Induced Mild Hypothermia in Children after Brain Injury
13. Transplantation: Current Developments and Future Directions
14. Death and Irreversibility
15. Defining Human Death: An Intersection of Bioethics and Metaphysics
16. The Political Economy of Death and the History of its Criteria
17. Israel's New Brain-Respiratory Death Act: One Step Forward or Two Steps Backward?
18. Computer Implants and Death
19. Planning and Providing for a Good Death Using Rural French-Canadian and English-Canadian Insights