The US Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA, 1982) has provided ___________ for the determination as death should be declared based upon current standards established by the medical community. There are no clear definitions of 'accepted medical practice' and the meaning of the term 'irreversible' is subject to interpretation. Nor is there legal guidance for the tests or mechanisms that should be employed to determine death.
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One of the driving forces for illegal organ trafficking and for "transplantation tourism" is the ______________________ for organs and transplant surgeries in different areas of the world.
The Uniform Determination of Death Act (1981) declares that, "Determination of Death. An individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with _________________________________."
Irish and ______________________Indian transplant stories tell of a juggler given the power to remove his own eyes a specified number of times, and, having exceeded his quota and thus lost his own, he uses animal eyes to replace the lost globes.
The neocortical formulation of death, which was proposed in the early days of the brain death debate, advocates a fundamentally different concept of death: the irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness and __________________. By application of this consciousness- or personhood-centered definition of death, its proponents classify patients in a permanent vegetative state and anencephalic infants as dead.