• DOI:10.1007/s10943-016-0298-4
Corpus ID: 28798662

When Brain Death Belies Belief

@article{Yanke2016WhenBD,
  title={When Brain Death Belies Belief},
  author={Greg Yanke and M. Rady and J. Verheijde},
  journal={Journal of Religion and Health},
  year={2016},
  volume={55},
  pages={2199-2213}
}

Greg Yanke, M. Rady, J. Verheijde

Published 2016

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of Religion and Health

The case of Jahi McMath has reignited a discussion concerning how society should define death. Despite pronouncing McMath brain dead based on the American Academy of Neurology criteria, the court ordered continued mechanical ventilation to accommodate the family’s religious beliefs. Recent case law suggests that the potential for a successful challenge to the neurologic criteria of death provisions of the Uniform Determination of Death Act are greater than ever in the majority of states that… CONTINUE READING

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