James L. Bernat 
Professor of Neurology and Medicine Dartmouth Medical School
and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centre Lebanon, NH, USA
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Are brain dead patients really dead?
Whether brain death accurately represents the biology of human death remains controversial. I review and respond to the arguments against the validity of brain death and critically review the recently published study, "Controversies in the Determination of Death" by the U.S. President's Council on Bioethics. I conclude that brain death remains the most accurate concept of human death.
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