The “dead-donor rule” requires patients to be declared dead before the removal of life-
sustaining organs for transplantation. The concept of brain death was developed, in part, to …

The concept of death has evolved as technology has progressed. This has forced medicine
and society to redefine its ancient cardiorespiratory centred diagnosis to a neurocentric …

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician,
argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary …

Delimiting the Donor: The Dead Donor Rule - Robertson - 1999 - Hastings Center Report -
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SAGE Reference is proud to announce the five-volume Encyclopedia of Disability. This
encyclopedia represents the first attempt to bring an authoritative reference resource to the …

In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of
Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics. They …

Our ability to map and intervene in the structure of the human brain is proceeding at a very
quick rate. Advances in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery have given us fresh …

Background: Autopsy studies in patients who have been declared brain dead are rare. Total
brain necrosis (“respirator brain”) has been a common finding in the distant past. The time to …

The definition of death is one of the oldest and most enduring problems in biophilosophy
and bioethics. Serious controversies over formally defining death began with the invention of …

Donation after cardiac death protocols are subject to two constraints. The first is that organ
removal must occur as soon as possible after cardiac arrest. The second is that it must not …