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Brain Death and the Law

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When the poet penned those words over 70 years ago little could he imagine that the definition of death itself would be at some “disputed boundary” today.

I have a rendezvous with death at some disputed barricade.

Alan Seeger

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  1. Faroque A. Khan MD
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Pulmonary Lab, Flushing Medical Center, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  2. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  3. Pulmonary division, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  4. State of New York and Consolidated Edison Corporation, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  5. Flushing Hospital and Medical Center, 4500 Parsons Boulevard, Flushing, NY, 11355, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  6. Department of Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Roger C. Bone MD, FACP, FCCP (The Ralph Crissman Brown Professor and Chairman) (The Ralph Crissman Brown Professor and Chairman)

  7. Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, 2nd and 11th Judicial Districts, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

  8. Pace University, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

  9. 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY, 11435, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

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Khan, F.A., Dicker, H., Robertson, J.D. (1989). Brain Death and the Law. In: Vevaina, J.R., Bone, R.C., Kassoff, E. (eds) Legal Aspects of Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4534-6_22

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