Ch. 1. Brain death in cultural context: the reconstruction of death, 1967-1981
Ch. 2. Clinical standards and technological confirmatory tests in diagnosing brain death
Ch. 3. How much of the brain must be dead?
Ch. 4. Refinements in the definition and criterion of death
Ch. 5. On the brainstem criterion of death
Ch. 6. The persisting perplexities in the determination of death
Ch. 7. The bifurcated legal standard for determining death: does it work?
Ch. 8. The conscience clause: how much individual choice in defining death can our society tolerate?
Ch. 9. The unimportance of death
Ch. 10. American attitudes and beliefs about brain death: the empirical literature
Ch. 11. Fundamentals of life and death: Christian fundamentalism and medical science
Ch. 12. The definition of death in Jewish law
Ch. 13. Brain death, ethics, and politics in Denmark
Ch. 14. The problem of brain death: Japanese disputes about bodies and modernity
Ch. 15. Defining death in Germany: brain death and its discontents
Ch. 16. Dusk, dawn, and defining death: legal classifications and biological categories
Ch. 17. The role of the public in public policy on the definition of death
Ch. 18. Death in a technological and pluralistic culture
Ch. 19. Redefining death: the mirage of consensus
Ch. 20. Where do we go from here?
