| Reconsidering Brain Death: A Lesson from Japan’s Fifteen Years of Experience |
| Masahiro Morioka |
| Area 1 Ethics |
| Area 2 Philosophy of Law |
| Keywords organ transplantation bioethics comparative law |
| http://www.lifestudies.org/reconsidering.html |
| The Japanese Transplantation Law is unique among others in that it allows us to choose between "brain death" and "traditional death" as our death. In every country 20 to 40 % of the popularion doubts the idea of brain death. This paper reconsiders the concept, and reports the ongoing rivision process of the current law. Published in Hastings Center Report, 2001. |
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