Spinal shock and `brain death': Somatic pathophysiological equivalence and implications for the integrative-unity rationale

The somatic pathophysiology of high spinal cord injury (SCI) not only is of interest in itself but also sheds light on one of the several rationales proposed for equating `brain death' (BD) with death, namely that the brain confers integrative unity upon the body, which would otherwise constitu...

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