Catholic Health East: Ethics Topics

Topics:

Brain Death

Church Teaching
	ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II (36K) TO THE 18th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE TRANSPLANTATION SOCIETY, August 2000.
	Brain Death (24K) Report of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on brain death
Article/Commentary
	Bioethicists Save Organ Donation by Tweaking the Definition of Death In response to an emerging moral controversy over whether most vital organs used in transplants are technically taken from living people, the President's Council on Bioethics issued a new report that defines brain death as the cessation of engagement with the world.
	Brain Death and Accommodating Families (90K) An exercise from St. Joseph's Hospital of Orange, California, on thinking through the limits of accommodating families who want to continue treatment on brain dead bodies.
	Brain Death v. Cardiac Death From the Upper New York Transplant Services, Inc. Keywords: Cardiac, Death
	Weary Father Left To Count the Days Article about a brain dead woman attached to life-sustaining devices in an attempt to save her fetus.
Web Resource
	President's Council on Bioethics Report on Brain Death December 2008

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