Home
Search Our Site
About Us
Meetings
Reports
Transcripts
Background Materials
Former Bioethics Commissions
Contact Us
Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper by the President's Council on Bioethics
The President's Council on Bioethics
Washington, D.C., January 2009
Full Document (PDF)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letter of Transmittal to the President
Members of the President's Council on Bioethics
Council Staff
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Terminology
Chapter Three: The Clinical Presentation and Pathophysiology of Total Brain Failure
Chapter Four: The Philosophical Debate
Chapter Five: Implications for Policy and Practice
Chapter Six: Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation
Chapter Seven: A Summary of the Council's Debate on the Neurological Standard for Determining Death
Personal Statements:
Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, Dr. Phil.
Gilbert C. Meilaender, Ph.D.
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., Chairman
Topical Bibliography
Home
Site Map
Disclaimers
Privacy Notice
Accessibility
Contact Us
NBAC
HHS
—Download Acrobat Reader