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Bernat, James Lawrence was born on May 23, 1947 in Cincinnati. Son of Mitchell Joseph and Ruth Claire (Betagole) Bernat.
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Ethical Issues in Neurology by James L. Bernat MD (2008-03-03)
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Ethical Issues in Neurology
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Written by an eminent authority from the American Academy of Neurology's Committee on Ethics, Law, and Humanities, this book is an excellent text for all clinicians interested in ethical decision-making. The book features outstanding presentations on dying and palliative care, physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia, medical futility, and the relationship between ethics and the law. New chapters in this edition discuss how clinicians resolve ethical dilemmas in practice and explore ethical issues in neuroscience research. Other highlights include updated material on palliative sedation, advance directives, ICU withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy, gene therapy, the very-low-birth-weight premature infant, the developmentally disabled patient, informed consent, organizational ethics, brain death controversies, and fMRI and PET studies relating to persistent vegetative state.
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Neurology: Chapter 33. The definition and criterion of death (Handbook of Clinical Neurology)
(The definition and criterion of death have been rendered ...)
The definition and criterion of death have been rendered ambiguous by developments in organ support technology, particularly the positive-pressure ventilator and vasopressor medications, that uncouple the unitary loss of vital functions in death and create cases in which the brain has been destroyed while circulation and ventilation can be supported. Developing a biophilosophic analysis of the meaning of death before physicians can declare it requires four sequential steps: (1) agreement on the paradigm conditions that frame the analysis and clarify the task; (2) identifying the definition of death, which makes explicit the meaning of death that is accepted in our consensual usage of the term but that has become obscured by technology; (3) identifying the criterion of death that shows that the definition has been fulfilled, and that can be incorporated into a death statute; and (4) devising bedside tests of death for physicians to perform to satisfy the criterion. Although there is a strong consensus on death determination medical standards in countries around the world that has been enshrined into laws, and accepted by most societies and religions, there remains an active dispute among scholars on the precise definition and criterion of death.
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James Lawrence Bernat
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James Lawrence Bernat, American Neurologist, educator. Diplomate American Board Psychiatry and Neurology. Board of directors Vermont Ethics Network, Montpelier, since 1995. Fellow American College of Physicians, American Academy Neurology (chair ethics committee since 1993, Executive Board 1993-1997).
Education
Bachelor, U. Massachusetts, 1969; Doctor of Medicine, Cornell Univercity, New York City, 1973.
Career
Resident in medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, N.H., 1973-1974; resident in neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, 1974-1977; staff neurologist, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, since 1995; staff neurologist, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont, 1977-1994; professor medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, since 1991. Assistant dean Dartmouth Medical School, since 1995, director program in medical ethics, since 1995.
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Neurology: Chapter 33. The definition and criterion of death (Handbook of Clinical Neurology)
(The definition and criterion of death have been rendered ...)
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Ethical Issues in Neurology
( Written by an eminent authority from the American Acade...)
- Ethical issues in neurology, 3d ed.
- Ethical Issues in Neurology by James L. Bernat MD (2008-03-03)
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Neurology: Chapter 33. The definition and criterion of death (Handbook of Clinical Neurology)
Membership
Board of directors Vermont Ethics Network, Montpelier, since 1995. Fellow American College of Physicians, American Academy Neurology (chair ethics committee since 1993, Executive Board 1993-1997).
Connections
Married Judith Elaine Lenzner, June 8, 1969. Children: Deborah Eden, David Clare.
