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ajiss-459		ajiss-459		25	.pdf	application/pdf	10784	407	48	However, this uncontested (inten- sive care) medical progress, which was fundamentally responsible not only for transplantation for the living but also for the deceased, is not enough to explain why brain death and postmortem organ transplantation became the center of attention at the beginning of the 1980s. The underlying question about being allowed to turn off the respirator due to a diagnosis of brain death had, in the western context, already led to the recognition that the actual question pointed in the opposite direction: Was it permissible to artifi- cially prolong the respiration and circulation of a person who had been declared dead due to the brain-death criteria in order to guarantee a medical- ly flawless organ harvest?7	cache/ajiss-459.pdf	txt/ajiss-459.txt