Reference Materials Concerning the Organ Donation Dilemma
Life Guardian Foundation, https://lifeguardianfoundation.org/
Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School, “A Definition of Irreversible Coma,” Journal of the American Medical Association, August 5, 1968, Vol. 205, No. 6
Brugger, E. Christian, “Are Brain Dead Individuals Dead? Grounds for Reasonable Doubt,” J Med Philos, June 2016; 41(3)L329-50, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27075192/
Grimstad, Julie, “Is There Moral Certainty that ‘Brain Dead’ Organ Donors Are Dead?” May 11, 2019, https://catholiccitizens.org/views/86634/is-there-moral-certainty-that-brain-dead-organ-donors-are-dead/
Kokz, Stephen, “‘Brain death’ is a medical fiction invented to harvest organs from living people: expert,” LIFESITE, March 20, 2019, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/brain-death-is-a-medical-fiction-invented-to-harvest-organs-from-living-people-expert
Pope, Thaddeus, “Brain Death and the Law: Hard Cases and Legal Challenges,” The Hastings Center Report, December 25, 2018, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hast.954
Potts, Michael; Byrne, Paul A.; Nilges, Richard G. – Eds, Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death , Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2000
Shewmon, D. Alan, MD, “‘Brainstem Death,’ ‘Brain Death’ and Death: A Critical Re-Evaluation of the Purported Equivalence,” Issues in Law & Medicine, 1998-1999
Truog, Robert D. and Miller, Franklin G., “The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation,” New England Journal of Medicine, 2008:359:674-675
Truog, Robert D.; Miller, Franklin G.; Halpern, Scott D., “The Dead Donor Rule and the Future of Organ Donation,” New England Journal of Medicine, 1287-89, October 3, 2013
The case of Zack Dunlap : NBC News Dateline , 3/23/2008; The Associated Press, “Oklahoma man who was declared dead says he feels ‘pretty good’,” New York Daily News, March 24, 2008, https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/oklahoma-man-declared-dead-feels-pretty-good-article-1.286113
The case of Steven Thorpe : “‘Brain dead’ Steven Thorpe defies doctors’ predictions,” BBC, May 19, 2012, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-17757112 ; http://www.truthaboutorgandonation.com/files/Steven_Thorpe.pdf ; “Steven Thorpe, British Teen Who Was Declared Dead By Doctors, Makes Miracle Recovery,” Huffington Post, 7/30/2013