Working Group on the Determination of Brain Death and its Relationship to Human Death, 10-14 December 1989
By: edited by R.J. White, H. Angstwurm and I. Carrasco de Paula.
Contributors: White, Robert J.; Angstwurm, H.; Paula, I. Carrasco de.
Series: Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum scripta varia ;; 83
Publisher: Pontificia Academia Scientiarum
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Vatican City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Brain death -- Congresses.; Death -- Proof and certification -- Congresses.; Brain Death -- congresses.; Death -- congresses.; Ethics -- congresses.
Other titles: Determination of brain death and its relationship to human death.
Notes: English and French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / G.B. Marini-Bettòlo; title: Foreword; title: List of participants; title: Discourse of John Paul II to the participants of the working group; title: Welcoming address to the participitants / G.B. Marini-Bettòlo; title: Introductory lecture / John C. Eccles; title: Brain death as the death of a human being / Heinz Angstwurm; title: "Brain death": a valid theme with invalid variations, blurred by semantic ambiguity / D. Alan Shewmon; title: The concept of human death in reference to organ transplantation / Robert J. White; title: Definition of death and organ transplantation. Experiences from Sweden / David H. Ingvar and Sven-Erik Bergentz; title: Perspectives in brain research / David Ottoson; title: Final considerations formulated by the scientific participants; title: Preliminary notes on the legal implications of organ transplants / Guido Gerin; title: Is "brain death" actually death? A critique of redefining man's death in terms of "brain death" / Josef Seifert; title: Assertions dogmatiques que doit prendre en compte la reflexion sur la transplantation d'organes / Daniel Ols, O.P.; title: Catholic doctrine on death / John M. McDermott, S.J.; title: Réflexion philosophique et théologique sur le moment de la mort / Jean-Michel Maldamé, O.P.; title: "Cerebral death": is this sufficient to establish human death? / Lino Ciccone; title: The ethical relevance of brain death / I. Carrasco de Paula; title: Conclusion of the meeting of the Working Group held at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 19-21 1985 on the "The ai-Bettòlo; title: Foreword; title: List of participants; title: Discourse of John Paul II to the participants of the working group; title: Welcoming address to the participitants / G.B. Marini