This paper will defend the thesis that consent is merely a transitional concept. While it emerged in the field as a liberal, innovative idea, its time may have passed and newer, more enlightened formulations may be needed. ...

Three comments about this case [Echenberg, R.J., "Permanently locked-in syndrome in the neurologically impaired neonate," p. 206-208] may be helpful. First, the major concern expressed by Echenberg is procedural in nature. ...

In this fourth in a series of nine articles on brain death, Pallis continues his presentation of explicit guidelines for the physician to use in diagnosing brain stem death. He describes simple bedside tests for ascertaining ...

This fifth in a series of articles by a neurologist warns the physician about potential pitfalls in diagnosing brain stem death. The pitfalls fall into three broad categories: failure to ensure that diagnostic preconditions ...

This is the first in a series of nine articles by Pallis, a British neurologist, who maintains that it is legitimate to equate brain death with death, that the necessary and sufficient component of brain death is death ...

This sixth in a series of nine articles on brain death provides the physician with brief guidelines on when and how to declare that death has occurred. (KIE abstract)