title: [The problem of death in current medicine].
abstract: The actual question of the determination of the time of death and the transplantation of organs have made the phenomenon of death in a special way important nowadays and have opened a new area of tasks, especially for the subject of neuropsychiatry. A reflection and discussion of the problem of death can only be possible in the context of actual historical and sociocultural developments. Regarding a fundamental reflection of the phenomenon of death in medicine and a physician's work, the author names especially the philosophical, theological, sociological, and psychological aspects of death.
mesh_terms: D003643:Death; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy; D011584:Psychology; D012067:Religion; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012961:Sociology
vernacular_title: Zum Todesproblem in der modernen Medizin