This reflexive essay approaches brain death and organ donation, establishing both as an contemporary cultural practice. It is based on the theorization that argues for the body and the subject in the postmodernism, especially in post structural studies. This study also highlights the relationships between cultural, scientific, philosophical and legal dimensions that constitute a field of contestation and negotiation in which the decisions are made towards norms and technological devices concerning death, organ donation and organ transplantation.
Brain death; Culture; Bioethics; Nursing