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Medical Futility and “Brain Death”
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 60, Number 3, Summer 2017
- pp. 400-402
- 10.1353/pbm.2018.0014
- Article
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Judgments of futility are always relative to some goal. In light of that proposition, continued treatment for those diagnosed as “brain dead” is not necessarily futile.