Death before Dying - Belkin, Gary (MD, PhD, MPH, MD, PhD, MPH, NYU School of Medicine, New York)

Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death brings fresh perspectives to the historical appearance of the idea of brain death. In doing so, raises larger questions about the place of bioethics in medicine, and the uses of history to be more curious about how medical knowledge can work as a potentially innovative source of values.