Incoherence in the Brain Death Guideline Regarding Brain Blood Flow Testing: Lessons from the Much-Publicized Case of Zack Dunlap
By Doyen Nguyen, OP, MD, STD and Christine M. Zainer, MD. Abstract At age 21, following a severe traumatic brain injury, Zack Dunlap was declared [...]
Catholics United on Brain Death and Organ Donation: A Call to Action
Download the PDF Authored by: Joseph M. Eble, MD,1 John A. Di Camillo, PhD, BeL,2 Peter J. Colosi, PhD3 1 President, Tulsa Guild of the [...]
Evolution of the Criteria of “Brain Death”: A Critical Analysis Based on Scientific Realism and Christian Anthropology
“Brain death” (understood in the sense of “whole brain death” and not in the sense of “brainstem death”) was introduced into clinical practice in 1968 [...]
Is Brain Death the Death of a Human Person?
By Robert Spaemann “The identification of ‘brain death’ and the death of the human being can be maintained only if the personality of man is disconnected [...]
‘Brain Death,’ Organ Donation, and Presumed Consent
Consent Cannot Be Presumed because 'Brain Death' Is Not True Death Doyen Nguyent, 2019 Abstract The marked decline in organ donation in Germany in recent years [...]
Why Thomistic Defense of “Brain Death” is Not Thomistic: An Analysis From The Perspectives Of Classical Philosophy and Contemporary Biophilosophy
DOYEN NGUYEN Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Rome, Italy THE ONGOING DEBATE on “brain death” (BD)— also known as the neurological standard for the determination [...]