ArticleJournal of medical ethics2007
The Declaration of Sydney on human death.
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- Computed Tomography Perfusion is a Useful Adjunct to Computed Tomography Angiography in the Diagnosis of Brain Death.Clinical neuroradiology · 2019Article
- Selected Legal Aspects of Donation After Circulatory Death in Poland.Annals of transplantation · 2019Review
- The Relevance of Irreversible Loss of Brain Function as a Reliable Sign of Death.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2018Review
- The history of autonomy in medicine from antiquity to principlism.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2018Article
- Primary Posterior Fossa Lesions and Preserved Supratentorial Cerebral Blood Flow: Implications for Brain Death Determination.Neurocritical care · 2017Article
- Chronic Brain-Dead Patients Who Exhibit Lazarus Sign.Korean journal of neurotrauma · 2017Article
- Crossing the Rubicon: Death in 'The Year of the Transplant'.Medical history · 2017Article
- East-West differences in perception of brain death. Review of history, current understandings, and directions for future research.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2015Review
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Abstract
On 5 August 1968, publication of the Harvard Committee's report on the subject of "irreversible coma" established a standard for diagnosing death on neurological grounds. On the same day, the 22nd World Medical Assembly met in Sydney, Australia, and announced the Declaration of Sydney, a pronouncement on death, which is less often quoted because it was overshadowed by the impact of the Harvard Report. To put those events into present-day perspective, the authors reviewed all papers published on this subject and the World Medical Association web page and documents, and corresponded with Dr A G Romualdez, the son of Dr A Z Romualdez. There was vast neurological expertise among some of the Harvard Committee members, leading to a comprehensible and practical clinical description of the brain death syndrome and the way to diagnose it. This landmark account had a global medical and social impact on the issue of human death, which simultaneously lessened reception of the Declaration of Sydney. Nonetheless, the Declaration of Sydney faced the main conceptual and philosophical issues on human death in a bold and forthright manner. This statement differentiated the meaning of death at the cellular and tissue levels from the death of the person. This was a pioneering view on the discussion of human death, published as early as in 1968, that should be recognised by current and future generations.
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