Academics

Ethicists Clarify Definitions Of Brain Dead, Coma, Vegetative State, etc. Amid National Cases

According to Arthur Caplan, head of the division of bioethics at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, and Laurence McCullough, a professor at the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, both hospitals are acting unethically in keeping their patients alive.