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SUMMARY:How Brain Death Declarations Can Harm, and Why Legal Exemptions Should Be the Rule
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 Join us for this free webinar from Jennifer L. 
 McCurdy, PhD, BSN, MH, HEC-C, presented as part 
 of the 2022-2023 Bioethics Public Seminar 
 Series. Register: https://bit.ly/bioethics-mccurdy\n
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 According 
 to U.S. law and The Uniform 
 Determination of Death Act (UDDA), an individual 
 can be declared dead by either cardiac 
 or neurological criteria. The latter, known 
 colloquially as brain death, allows a physician 
 to withdraw patients from medical devices 
 against the wishes of families and other surrogates. 
 While once seemingly settled, the concept 
 of death by neurological criteria has increasingly 
 become a topic of controversy, both 
 technically and philosophically. This seminar 
 will argue that the UDDA should make New Jersey-style 
 legal exemptions to brain death declaration 
 a national guideline, thus allowing 
 individuals to claim a religious exemption 
 when they disagree that brain death is, in fact, 
 death. Why? Because the concept of brain 
 death is based on a specific eurochristian worldview 
 that is not held in common by many reasonable 
 people in U.S. society. The imposition 
 of those unshared worldviews on patients and 
 their loved ones through force of law causes 
 unjustified and avoidable trauma, furthers 
 epistemic injustices, and generates distrust.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Center for Bioethics and Social Justice\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.bioethics.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Liz McDaniel\n
 Contact email: center@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://bioethics.msu.edu/public-seminars/22-23-series\n
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom webinar)
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