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Working group on the determination of brain death and its relationship to human death, 10-14 December 1989
- Title
- Working group on the determination of brain death and its relationship to human death, 10-14 December 1989 / edited by R.J. White, H. Angstwurm and I. Carrasco de Paula.
- Author
- Working Group on the Determination of Brain Death and its Relationship to Human Death (1989 : Vatican City)
- Publication
- Vatican City : Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, c1992.
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- Description
- xxvii, 209 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum scripta varia ; 83
- Alternative Title
- Determination of brain death and its relationship to human death
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Preface / G.B. Marini-Bettòlo -- Foreword -- List of participants -- Discourse of John Paul II to the participants of the working group -- Welcoming address to the participitants / G.B. Marini-Bettòlo -- Introductory lecture / John C. Eccles -- Brain death as the death of a human being / Heinz Angstwurm -- "Brain death": a valid theme with invalid variations, blurred by semantic ambiguity / D. Alan Shewmon -- The concept of human death in reference to organ transplantation / Robert J. White -- Definition of death and organ transplantation. Experiences from Sweden / David H. Ingvar and Sven-Erik Bergentz -- Perspectives in brain research / David Ottoson -- Final considerations formulated by the scientific participants -- Preliminary notes on the legal implications of organ transplants / Guido Gerin -- Is "brain death" actually death? A critique of redefining man's death in terms of "brain death" / Josef Seifert -- Assertions dogmatiques que doit prendre en compte la reflexion sur la transplantation d'organes / Daniel Ols, O.P. -- Catholic doctrine on death / John M. McDermott, S.J. -- Réflexion philosophique et théologique sur le moment de la mort / Jean-Michel Maldamé, O.P. -- "Cerebral death": is this sufficient to establish human death? / Lino Ciccone -- The ethical relevance of brain death / I. Carrasco de Paula -- Conclusion of the meeting of the Working Group held at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 19-21 1985 on the "The artificial prolongation of life and the determination of the exact moment of death" (originally published in Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta varia 60, pp. 113-114)
- Call Number
- JSE 95-1976
- ISBN
- 8877610484
- OCLC
- 28350647
- Conference
- Working Group on the Determination of Brain Death and its Relationship to Human Death (1989 : Vatican City)
- Title
- Working group on the determination of brain death and its relationship to human death, 10-14 December 1989 / edited by R.J. White, H. Angstwurm and I. Carrasco de Paula.
- Imprint
- Vatican City : Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, c1992.
- Series
- Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum scripta varia ; 83
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- White, Robert J.Angstwurm, H. (Heinz)Paula, I. Carrasco de.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 95-1976