Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee holds the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Chair of Bioethics, and is the Director of the Institute of Bioethics, at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He has written three books (Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics, with Robert P. George, 2008; Abortion and Unborn Human Life, 2010; and Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters, with Robert P. George, 2014) and numerous scholarly and popular articles.

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Articles


Total Brain Death is a Valid Criterion of Death

January 15, 2015

Even if brain-dead bodies do possess coordinated living functions of some sort, they are clearly not sentient organisms, and therefore not human organisms. Whenever total brain death does occur, the human organism has died.