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Article: New surgery research from P. Kinnaert and co-researchers described.
- Article from:
- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- November 15, 2009
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According to a study from Belgium, "This paper demonstrates that discussions about the diagnosis of death and the meaning of states of suspended animation existed long before the publication of the Harvard criteria in 1968."
"The surgeons who started retrieving kidneys from heart beating cadavers have been accused to redefine death in order to obtain high quality organs. In fact, they were not aware of modifying a definition," wrote P. Kinnaert and colleagues (see also Surgery).
The researchers concluded: "They did not view death as a philosophical concept but considered that it was a biological phenomenon of which brain death was merely a new expression ...