Hot Take  Defining Death  February 25, 2018
Channel: The Grace and Paul Pottscast
Date: 26/02/2018

We were pressed for time this week, so we were not able to spend much time preparing or recording. Therefore, we have a shorter-than-usual, but somewhat disorganized, conversation about the strange case of Jahi McMath, a young woman who suffered terrible complications after a routine tonsilectomy. Jahi has existed for years now in a liminal state somewhere between technologically-supported bodily life, and legal brain death. Her case is controversial, and hotly disputed by hospital administrators and medical ethicists, and casts doubt on the contemporary definition of death that enables organ transplantation. Her story, and her family's story, also seems to us to be illustrative of the ways that black patients and their families are mistreated and disrespected by the medical establishment.

The blog post for this show, with a link to the MP3 file, a link to the podcast feed, and any additional show notes, can be found here: http://pottscast.blogspot.com/2018/02/hot-take-defining-death-february-25-2018.html