In Re the Welfare of Bowman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it is for the medical profession to determine the applicable criteria for deciding whether brain death is present and to define the acceptable practices taking into account new knowledge of brain function and new diagnostic procedures
• providing for brain death standard in addition to circulatory and respiratory function standard to define death
• “heart and lungs” definition of death only part of definition of death
• removal of respirator on child with no brain functions
• case involving definition of death
• case involving definition of death

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