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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HARVARD AD HOC COMMITTEE ON BRAIN DEATH

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1968 CE

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A definition of irreversible coma. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to examine the definition of brain death.

HARVARD AD HOC COMMITTEE ON BRAIN DEATH

This report described the following characteristics of a permanently nonfunctioning brain, a condition it referred to as "irreversible coma," now known as brain death: 1. Unreceptivity and unresponsitivity--patient sh…