Sharon Kaufman

Professor Emerita, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco

Sharon Kaufman is professor emerita and former chair (2012-2018) of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her latest book is Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives and Where to Draw the Line (2015).

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Written by Sharon Kaufman

A blurry X-ray view of a person’s head and shoulders. You can make out eye sockets and a nose. The person glows yellow apart from around where their brain is

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Bioethics

Neither person nor cadaver

The body is warm, but the brain has gone dark: why the notion of brain death provokes the thorniest of medical dilemmas

Sharon Kaufman