Halakhic realities
Subtitle: collected essays on brain death
By: edited by Zev Farber
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Maggid Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New Milford, CT
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9781592644063
Subjects: Death; Proof and certification (Jewish law); Brain death; Decision making; Moral and ethical aspects; Religious aspects; Mort cérébrale; Prise de décision; Aspect moral; Judaism and science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Articles in English with occasional qouted passages in Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: Section I. The medico-legal issues: an overview : How a person is declared dead / Zelik Frischer ; The legal history of brain death / Daniel Sinclair ; Neurological death: a twenty-first-century definition / Noam Stadlan ; Dead enough / Howard R. Doyle ; Non-heart-beating organ donation: the ethical challenges involved / Kenneth Prager; title: Section II. Halakhah: General responsa : Jewish law and medical science / Yoel Bin Nun ; The Talmud's understanding of life and death / Yaakov Love ; Death is a process / Joseph Isaac Lifshitz ; Brain death or cardiocirculatory death? / Dov Linzer ; Updating the brainstem death definition / Yosef Carmel; title: Section III. Halakhah: a look at the posqim : Rabbi Moshe Feinstein on brainstem death: a reassessment / Daniel Reifman ; Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik on brain death and organ donation: a testimony / Marc Angel, Binyamin Walfish, and Maurice Lamm ; Rabbi Hershel Schachter on vital organs: a responsa / Zev Farber ; Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and the sheep experiments / Avraham Steinberg ; Non-heart-beating donation from brain dead patients: Rav Ahron Soloveitchik's solution / Asher Lopatin; title: Section IV. Historical and ethical considerations : A life of halakha or a halakha of life? / Irving (Yitz) Greenberg ; Death and halkha in the modern age: a philosopher's perspective / Jeremy Rosenbaum Simon ; Immanuel Jakobovits and the birth of Jewish medical ethics / Alan Brill ; Torah u-madda and the brain death debate / Charles Sheer ; Is our policy on brain death ethical? / Noam Zohar ; Afterword: Thinking ahead and out loud.