Blurring The Line Between Life And DeathKUHF-FMAn excerpt from the book questioning the practices of organ donation and how the medical community determines brain death was published in The Wall Street Journal and has created a lot of controversy in th…

Blurring The Line Between Life And DeathNPRAn excerpt from the book questioning the practices of organ donation and how the medical community determines brain death was published in The Wall Street Journal and has created a lot of controversy in the me…

SalonThe evolution of deathSalonAs for brain death, which the mountain of evidence to the contrary, it is comical to consider that this marks the moment of death, though fifty states accept this legal fiction. The search for the moment of death continu…

Quest for longevity entails paradoxes, compromisesWinnipeg Free PressMost disturbing is his chapter The Brain-Death Revolution, in which he suggests that the now famous Harvard Committee to Examine the Definition of Brain Death "lower[ed] the bar …

Khuber died from severe head injuriesRegina Leader-PostKhuber was unconscious and unresponsive and testing revealed brain death had occurred. He was pronounced dead the next day. Kumar noted blood work revealed the presence of alcohol, cocaine and THC …

Neurosurgeon testifies in trial of Regina man charged in fatal crashRegina Leader-PostKhuber was unconscious and unresponsive and testing revealed brain death had occurred. He was pronounced dead the next day. Kumar noted blood work revealed the presen…

Deregulation in the death businessDaily CallerThe law stems back to 1968, when an ad hoc committee of 13 men commissioned by the Harvard Medical School added a new type of death, brain death, to the standard heart-lung form of death. Organ transplantat…

'Brain dead certification will help in organ harvesting'The Hindu“Apart from lack of awareness about organ donation, one major obstacle in our work is that the doctors do not declare brain death even when it happens. They keep the patient on …

Macleans.caIn conversation: Dick TeresiMacleans.caDoctors became more involved, but the real change occurred in 1968: a committee of 13 men at Harvard Medical School endorsed brain death as legal death, and this became US law in 1981. Doctors were now …

New Yorker (blog)To-Do List: Southern Primaries and Astounding FactsNew Yorker (blog)The current criteria on brain death were set by a Harvard Medical School committee in 1968, at a time when organ transplantation was making great strides. In 1981, the…