Background
Victor, Michael Gary was born on September 20, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Simon H. and Helen (Litsky) Victor.
(Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has...)
Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of criticism and scrutiny of the bioethics movement. Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death looks at the work of the Committee in a way that has not been attempted before in terms of tracing back the context of its own sources-the reasoning of it Chair, Henry K Beecher, and the care of patients in coma and knowledge about coma and consciousness at the time. That history requires re-thinking the debate over brain death that followed which has tended to cast the Committee's work in ways this book questions. This book, then, also questions common assumptions about the place of bioethics in medicine. This book discusses if the advent of bioethics has distorted and limited the possibilities for harnessing medicine for social progress. It challenges historical scholarship of medicine to be more curious about how medical knowledge can work as a potentially innovative source of values.
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(Personalised accounts of out-of-body (OBE) and near-death...)
Personalised accounts of out-of-body (OBE) and near-death (NDE) experiences are frequently interpreted as offering evidence for immortality and an afterlife. Since most OBE/NDE follow severe curtailments of cerebral circulation with loss of consciousness, the agonal brain supposedly permits 'mind', 'soul' or 'consciousness' to escape neural control and provide glimpses of the afterlife. Michael Marsh critically analyses the work of five key writers who support this so-called "dying brain" hypothesis. He firmly disagrees with such otherworldly 'mystical' or 'psychical' interpretations, ably demonstrating how they are explicable in terms of brain neurophysiology and its neuropathological disturbances. The original basis and thrust of Marsh's claim sees the recorded phenomenology as reflections of brains rapidly reawakening to full conscious-awareness, consistent with other reported phenomenologies attending recovery from antecedent states of unconsciousness: the "re-awakening brain" hypothesis. From this basis, Marsh also offers a re-classification of NDE into early and late phase sequences, thereby dismantling the untenable concepts of "core" and "depth" experiences. Marsh further provides a detailed examination of the spiritual and quasi-religious overtones accorded OBE/NDE, highlighting their inconsistencies when compared with classical accounts of divine disclosure, and the eschatological precepts of resurrection belief as professed credally. In assessing the implications of anthropological, philosophical, and theological concepts of 'personhood' and 'soul' as arguments for personal survival after death, Marsh celebrates the role of conventional faith in appropriating the expectant biblical promises of a 'New Creation'.
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Victor, Michael Gary was born on September 20, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Simon H. and Helen (Litsky) Victor.
Degree in Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1967.
Of counsel Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey,, Chicago, 1980—1999. President Advocate Advisory Associates, 1982-1995. Assistant professor medicine Northwestern University Medical School, 1982—2006.
Lecturer University Illinois, since 1999, assistant clinical professor, 2008. Director emergency medicine Loretto Hospital, Chicago, 1980-1985, chief. section of emergency medicine St. Josephs Hospital, Chicago, 1985-1987. Private practice medical law Barrington, Ill, since 1982.
Vice president Medical Emergency Services Associates, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, 1989. Vice president Mining Enforcement And Safety Administration Management Corporation. Executive leadership coach Lee Hecht Harrison, Chicago.
(Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has...)
(Personalised accounts of out-of-body (OBE) and near-death...)
Author: Informed Consent, 1980. Brain Death, 1980. (with others) Due Process for Physicians, 1984, A Physicians Guide to the Illinios Living Will Act, The Choice is Ours!, 1989.
Fellow American College Legal Medicine (board governors 1996-1997, alternate delegate to American Medical Association House of Delegates 1996-1997), Chicago Academy Legal Medicine. Member American College Emergency Physicians (president Illinois chapter 1980, medical-legal-insurance council 1980-1981, 83-84), American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, American Society Law and Medicine, Chicago Bar Association (medical-legal council 1981-1983), American Medical Association, Illinois State Medical Society (medical-legal council 1980-1986, 88), Chicago Medical Society.
Children: Elise Nicole, Sara Lisabeth.