Catholic Health East: Ethics Topics

Topics:

Determination of Death

Church Teaching
	Brain Death (24K) Report of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on brain death
	Directive 62 (24K) Death to be determined by physician
	Directive 64 (24K) Timing of organ removal
	Directive 65 (24K) Organ donation from infants
Article/Commentary
	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.

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