CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: FEAR AND TREMBLING

1. “Strange Business”

2. The Justification: Beecher’s Ethics

3. The Law

4. The Criteria I: The Waking Brain and the Discourse of Consciousness

5. The Criteria II: The Working Brain and the Comatose Patient

6. Brain Death After Beecher and the Limits of Bioethics

INDEX