Articles

Below you will find articles by rabbis, doctors and scholars about the halachic and medical issues surrounding brain-stem death and organ donation. Some articles are pro organ donation and some are con. We believe by showing all positions, we can allow the public to judge for themselves where they stand on these issues.

91. Title: Defaults and Donation Decisions
    

    Author: Johnson, Eric J. and Goldstein, Daniel G.
    Publication: Transplantation
    Year: 2004
    Download: English

    HOD Comments:
    Transplantation, Volume 78, Number 12, December 27, 2004.~~

     

92. Title: Definition and determination of time of death according to Jewish law
    

    Author: Rabinowitz, Rabbi Aharon and Koenigsberg, Dr. Mordecai
    Publication: Hadarom
    Year: 1971
    Download: Hebrew

    HOD Comments:
    Volume 32

     

93. Title: Organ Transplantation in China (in Hebrew)
    

    Author: Lavee, Yaakov (Jay Lavee)
    Publication: HaRefuah
    Year: 28/06/1905
    Download: Hebrew

    HOD Comments:
    HaRefuah

     

94. Title: A new law for allocation of donor organs in Israel
    

    Author: Lavee, Jacob; Ashkenazi, Tamar; Gurman, Gabriel; Steinberg, David
    Publication: www.thelancet.com
    Year: 01/07/1905
    Download: English

    HOD Comments:
    Online

     

95. Title: Conceptual and Logical Proglems Arising from Defining Life and Death by the Presence or Absence of Circulation
    

    Author: Stadlan, Dr. Noam
    Publication: Meorot, A Forum of Modern Orthodox Discourse
    Year: 2010~~
    Download: English

    HOD Comments:

     

96. Title: The Case for Kidney Markets
    

    Author: Hippen, Dr. Benjamin
    Publication: The New Atlantis
    Year: 2006~~
    Download: English

    HOD Comments:

     

97. Title: Markets for Kidney Transplants
    

    Author: Munro, Neil
    Publication: National Journal
    Year: 03/10/2009
    Download: English

    HOD Comments:
    National Journal~~

     

98. Title: Jews and Organ Donations: All Take and No Give?
    

    Author: Berkowitz, Adena K.
    Publication: Moment
    Year: 1995
    Download: English

    HOD Comments:
    Moment Magazine

     

99. Title: The right to sell or buy a kidney: are we failing our patients?
    

    Author: Friedlaender, Michael M.
    Publication: The Lancet
    Year: 2002
    Download: English

    HOD Comments:
    The Lancet, Vol 359, March 16, 2002~~

     

100. Title: Eulogy for Louis Washkansky
     

     Author: Unknown – Probably the Officiating Rabbi
     Publication: ?
     Year: 1968~~
     Download: English

     HOD Comments:

      

101. Title: Whaddaya Have To Do To Get A Kidney Around Here?
     

     Author: Kissling, Frances
     Publication: Salon.com
     Year: 2009
     Download: English

     HOD Comments:
     Frances Kissling is a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the former president of Catholics for a Free Choice.~~

      

102. Title: Mortality and Causes of Death
     

     Author: United States Renal Data System
     Publication: 2009 Annual Data Report
     Year: 2009
     Download: English

     HOD Comments:
     United States Renal Data System~~

      

103. Title: Rav Moshe Shternbuch: “Should I Give My Sister A Kidney?”
     

     Author: Shternbuch, Rav Moshe
     Publication: Revach l’Neshama
     Year: 2010~~
     Download: English

     HOD Comments:

      

104. Title: Brain Death: Can It Be Resuscitated? Letters
     

     Author: Shewman, D. Alan
     Publication: The Hastings Center Report
     Year: 2009
     Download: English

     HOD Comments:
     TheHastingsCenter.com

      

105. Title: Brain Death: Can It Be Resuscitated?
     

     Author: Shewmon, D. Alan
     Publication: Hastings Center Report
     Year: 2009
     Download: English

     HOD Comments:
     Full title: Brain Death: Can It Be Resuscitated? March/April 2009 Includes letters to the author from Hastings Center Report 39, no 5 (2009): 4-7, September-October 2009 entitled “And She’s Not Only Merely Dead, She’s Really Mostly Sincerely Dead”~~