title: [The subject of death. On the current controversy about brain-oriented determination of death].
abstract: Recently new concepts of partial brain death have seriously challenged the well-established whole-brain definition of death. In the present paper, we propose a 4-level-model of death, which differentiates the levels of attribution, definition, criteria, and tests. It is argued that whole-brain concepts of death are susceptible to partial-brain oriented criticism, mainly because they do not provide a precise determination of the subject of death.
authors.affiliation: Neurochirurgische Universitätsklinik, Bonn, BRD.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kurthen
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Linke
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Reuter
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moskopp
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D001926:Brain Death / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Das Subjekt des Todes. Zur aktuellen Kontroverse um hirnorientierte Todesbestimmungen.