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., December 2008

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