Articles

Below are several articles by rabbis and scholars about the halachic and medical issues surrounding organ donation. The HOD Society recommends readers review several articles in order to best educate themselves about the major issues, especially the debate regarding the moment of death. We have listed them below by relevance, and have included HOD Comments for each article.

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216 entries found.
1.Brain Death Controversy in Jewish Law, The
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Author: Breitowitz, Rabbi Yitzchak
Publication: Jewish Action
Year: 1992, Spring 5752
HOD Comment: A clear overview and input from R. Tendler
2.Brain Death I: A Status Report of Medical and Ethical Considerations
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Author: F. J. Veith et al.
Publication: The Journal of the American Medical Association
Year: 1977
HOD Comment: Please note the words of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein!
3.Brain Death II: A Status Report of Legal Considerations
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Author: F. J. Veith et al.
Publication: Journal of the American Medical Association
Year: 1977
4.Halakhic Death Means Brain Death
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Author: Tendler, Rabbi Moshe David
Publication: Jewish Review
Year: 1990, January-February
5.RCA Health Care Proxy, The
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Author: Angel, Rabbi Marc D.
Publication: Jewish Action
Year: 1992, Spring 5752
6.A Matter of Life and Death
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Author: Zwiebel, Chaim Dovid
Publication: Jewish Observer, The
Year: 1991, Summer
7.A Matter of Life and Death — Revisited
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Author: Unknown
Publication: Jewish Observer, The
Year: 1991, October
8.Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv on Brain-Stem Death
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Author: Auerbach, Rav Shlomo Zalman; Elyashiv, Rav Shlomo
Publication: Yated Ne'eman
Year: 1991
Publisher: Yated Neeman
HOD Comment: It seems this ruling was published twice, a year apart, with slight - yet important - changes. (The original ruling is attached as English document and the latter one as Hebrew document.) It has been said that the second ruling was issued due to the results of the sheep experiment. Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg explains the difference of opinions between Rav Auerbach and Rav Elyashiv even though they jointly published this ruling, “While Rav Auerbach agreed with R. Eliashiv that at the time one can't obtain organs from a brain-dead person, their reasoning was different. According to Rav Eliashiv the brain-stem dead person is alive because his heart is still pumping, while according to Rav Auerbach the reason was that such a person is "safek met safek gosses" (it is unknown if the person is dead or in the process of dying). This is a significant difference since in that if a validated test can be done that will assure the total destruction of the brain and on the other hand will not interfere with laws of gosses, then according to Rav Auerbach organs can be taken even if the heart is still functioning. My summary (ASSIA #53-54, p.13) of Rav Auerbach’s opinion was very carefully reviewed by him before publication, and he subsequently conveyed to Rabbi Mordechai Halperin that of all the documentation concerning his opinion it is this summary that most accurately describes his position in totality."
9.Monetary Compensation for Donating Kidneys
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Author: Grazi MD, Richard; Wolowelsky PhD, Joel
Publication: IMAJ
Year: 2004
HOD Comment: Arguments why Jewish law supports the legalization of purchasing and selling kidneys.
10.Medical Responsa
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Author: Feinstein, Rabbi Moshe
Publication: Cross Roads: Halacha and the Modern World; Page 129
Year: Unknown
11.Establishing Death, Signs of Death, Heart Transplants
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Author: Feinstein, Rabbi Moshe
Publication: Igrot Moshe Yoreh Deah, Vol. III, 132
Year: Over Many Years
12.Rav Moshe Feinstein's Position on Death and Organ Donation.pdf
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Author: Tendler, Rabbi Moshe
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13.Moment of Death
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Author: Feinstien, Rabbi Moshe; Auerbach, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman
Publication: Jewish Medical Ethics, Vol II No. 2
Year: 1995
14.Letter to Dr. Elliot Bondi by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
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Author: Feinstein, R. Moshe
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, page 148 -148(a)
Year: 1993
HOD Comment: This letter is from Rav Moshe Feinstein addressed to Dr. Elliot Bondi, reaffirming that brain death is death according to Halacha. The letter was dictated to Rabbi Mordechai Tendler in Yiddish by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, as were all of his correspondence in the latter days of his life. Rabbi Mordechai Tendler translated the Yiddish into Hebrew and Rabbi Yitzchak Zundel Swiatycki typed the letter in Hebrew. Rav Moshe Feinstein reviewed the typed letter and after affirming that it accurately reflected his position, he signed it and stamped it. [This photocopy was taken ASSIA magazine. At the bottom, there is an editorial note that comingles the names of Rabbi Mordechai Tendler with Rabbi Yitzchak Zundel Swiatycki, referring to them as Rabbi Mordechai Swiatycki.]
15.Opinion of Rav Moshe Feinstein
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Author: Feinstien, Rabbi Dovid
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, page 147
Year:
HOD Comment: Rabbi Dovid Feinstein testifies that his father's position was a person is halachicly dead if s/he can not breathe on his/her own and its irreversable - even if the heart is still beating.
16.Rav Moshe Feinstein's Postion on Brain-stem Death Clarified
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Author: Rappaport, Rabbi Shabtai
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, page 148(5)-148(7)
Year: 1993
HOD Comment: Letter from Rabbi Shabtai Rappaport to Rabbi Mordechai Halperin expounding Rav Moshe Feinstein's Position. Rabbi Shabtai Rappaport was Rav Moshe Feinstein's amanuensis for the last two volumes of Iggrot Moshe.
17.Opinion of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
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Author: Halperin, Rabbi Mordechai; Rappaport, Rabbi Shabtai, Levenstien, Rabbi Yisrael
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, page 137-146
Year: 1993
18.Letter from R. Feinstein on Brain-stem Death Legislation
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Author: Feinstein, Rabbi Moshe
Publication: Letter to Assemblyman Miller
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19.Letter from R. Auerbach on Gosses
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Author: Auerbach, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman
Publication: Jewish Medical Ethics, Vol. II, No. 2
Year: May 1995
20.Rabbi Moshe Feinstein on the Treatment of the Terminally Ill.
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Author: Feinstein, Rabbi Moshe as per ?
Publication: The 2nd International Colloquium of Medicine, Ethics and Halacha
Year: 1996
21.Determining Death - A Review of Positions
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Author: Rav Steinberg
Publication: ASSIA
Year: 1994
HOD Comment: According to Rabbi Doctor Avraham Steinberg, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach approved of each word in this article that Rabbi Steinberg wrote describing Rabbi Auerbach's position.
22.The Waiting Game: The Struggle to Find Organ Donors with the Less then Generous Public
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Author: Dr. Sally Satel
Publication: In Character
Year: 2006
HOD Comment: A personal plea to legalize the purchasing of organs.
23.Living Will (Health Care Proxy): Rabbinical Council of America (RCA)
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Author: Bioethics Committee of the RCA
Publication:
Year: 1991
24.Chief Rabbinate of Israel: Ruling on Organ Donation
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Author: Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Halachic Committee
Publication:
Year: 1986
25.Living Will: Agudath Israel of America (Agudah)
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Author:
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Year: 1991
HOD Comment: Please do not print this article and use it as a living will. This document is here for research and historical purposes only. The Aggudah asks you to please call them to obtain the latest version at the Agudath Israel of Americah (Agudah)call 212-797-9000.
26.Determining Death and Delayal of Burial
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Author: Waldenberg, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda
Publication: Reponsum Tzitz Eliezer 9:46
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27.Tests to Determine the Time of Brain Death
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Author: Unknown
Publication: Unknown
Year: Unknown
28.Transplantation
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Author: Prof. Avraham Steinberg
Publication: Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics
Year: ?
HOD Comment: Translated by Dr. Fred Rosner
29.Halachic Definition of Death in Light of Medical History, The
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Author: Reichman, Dr. Edward
Publication: Torah U-Madda Journal, The
Year: 1993
30.An Overview of Organ Transplantation
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Author: Durst, Prof. Aryeh
Publication: ASSIA Journal of Jewish Medical Ethics and Halacha;Vol. III, No. 1
Year: 1997, January
31.Medical-Halachic Decisions of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910-1995)
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Author: Steinberg, Dr./Rabbi Avraham
Publication: ASSIA Journal of Jewish Medical Ethics and Halacha;Vol. III, No. 1
Year: 1997, January
32.Sheep Experiment - Hebrew
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Author: Auerbach, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman as discussed by Yosef Eliyahu
Publication: Hatorah Hamesamachat
Year: 1998
33.The Laws of Saving Lives: Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
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Author: Halperin, Dr./Rabbi Mordechai
Publication: ASSIA Journal of Jewish Medical Ethics and Halacha; Vol. III, No. 1
Year: 1997, January
34.Organ Transplants: Responsa
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Author: Yisraeli, Rabbi Shaul
Publication: ASSIA Journal of Jewish Medical Ethics and Halacha;Vol. III, No. 1
Year: 1997, January
35.Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's Influence on Medical Halacha
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Author: Rosner, Dr. Fred
Publication: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society/XX, The
Year: 1990, Fall / Succot 5751
36.Ethics of Organ Donations, The
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Author: Tendler, Rabbi Dr. Moses
Publication: N/A
Year: 1995, December 4
HOD Comment: A Lecture Summary
37.Artificial Heart Implantation
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Author: Bleich, Rabbi J. David
Publication: Contemporary Halachic Problems, Vol. III, Chapter VIII
Year: 1989
Publisher: Ktav, New York
38.ASSIA - Abstracts
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Author: Fink, Ph.D., David
Publication: Jewish Medical Ethics
Year: 1997, January
39.An Introduction to Organ Transplantation
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Author: Rosner, Dr. Fred
Publication: ASSIA Magazine, Jewish Medical Ethics
Year: 1997, January
40.Ethical Aspects of Organ Transplantation
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Author: Glick, Prof. Shimon
Publication: ASSIA Magazine, Jewish Medical Ethics
Year: 1997, January
41.Ethical Aspects of Organ Transplantation - Hebrew
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Author: Glick, Prof. Shimon
Publication: The First International Colloquium on Medicine, Ethics & Halacha
Year: 1993
42.Death According to the Halacha
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Author: Soloveitchik, Rabbi Ahron
Publication: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society/XVII, The
Year: 1989, Spring / /Pesach 5749
43.Definition of Death in Judaism
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Author: Rosner, Dr. Fred & Tendler, Rabbi Moshe David
Publication: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society/XVII, The
Year: 1989, Spring / Pesach 5749
44.Accomodating Religious Objections to Brain Death: Legal Considerations
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Author: Zwiebel, Esq., Chaim Dovid
Publication: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society, The
Year: 1989, Spring
HOD Comment: Highly recommended reading!
45.Determining Death
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Author: Shachter, Rabbi Herschel
Publication: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society/XVII, The
Year: 1989, Spring / Pesach 5749
46.Medical Aspects of Brain Death
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Author: Kielson, Dr. Marshall
Publication: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society/XVII, The
Year: 1989, Spring / Pesach 5749
47.Laws of Saving Lives: The Teachings of Rabbi S. Z. Auerbach, The
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Author: Halperin, Dr. Mordechai
Publication: Jewish Medical Ethics
Year: 1997, January
48.Barriers to Organ Donation in the Jewish Community
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Author: Feld MD, Jordan; Sherbin, Pat; Cole MD, Edward
Publication: Journal of Transplant Coordination, Vol.8:19-24, Number 1
Year: 1998, March
HOD Comment: Reprint Requests: Phone 416-921-1130, email more@transplant-ontario.org
49.All Take and No Give
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Author: Berkowitz, Adena K.
Publication: Moment
Year: 1995, August
50.Disconnecting a Terminal Patient From an Artificial Respirator
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Author: HaLevi, Rabbi C. D.
Publication: Cross Roads: Halacha and the Modern World; Page 147
Year: Unknown
51.Determination of Death
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Author: Prof. Avraham. S. Avraham
Publication: Nishmas Avraham, Volume II
Year: ?
52.Moment of Death
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Author: Prof. Avraham Steinberg
Publication: Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics
Year: ?
HOD Comment: The Hebrew was translated into English by Dr. Fred Rosner
53.Halachic Aspects of Organ Transplantation
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Author: Fink, Rabbi Reuven
Publication: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society/V, The
Year: 1983, Spring
54.How A Rabbi Decides A Medical Halacha Issue
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Author: Breitowitz, Rabbi Yitzchok
Publication: Synopsis of Presentation, Conference on Jewish Medical Ethics, San Francisco, CA
Year: 1996, February 18-20
55.Ovadiah Yosef Rules Kidney Donations Permissible, Even Obligatory
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Author: Unknown
Publication: News Report
Year: Unknown
56.Organ Transplant: Soon It May Be a Routine Part of the Jewish Death Ritual
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Author: Unknown
Publication: Jewish Voice, The
Year: 1996, December
57.Jewish Perspectives on Death and Dying
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Author: Rosner, Dr. Fred
Publication: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society/XI, The; also ASSIA, V. II, #1, 1991
Year: 1986, Spring / Pesach 5746
58.Halachic Questions: Heart Transplants
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Author: Cohen, Rabbi J. Simcha
Publication: Jewish Press, The
Year: 1995, Friday, 30 June
59.Organ Transplants
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Author: Bleich, Rabbi J. David
Publication: Judaism and Healing
Year: 2002
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House
60.Cadavaric Organ Transplantation
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Author: Halperin, M.D., Rabbi Mordechai
Publication: Conference on Medicine, Ethics, and Jewish Law
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61.As Good As Dead: Is There Really Such a Thing as Brain Death
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Author: Greenberg, Gary
Publication: New Yorker, The
Year: 2002, 8/13 circa
62.Source Material (Biblical & Rabbinic)
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Author: Compiled by Dina Neiman Licht
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Year: 2002
63.Organ Transplantation
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Author: Waldenberg, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda
Publication: Reponsum Tzitz Eliezer 13:91
Year: Unknown
64.Prohibition of Tattooing, The
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Author: Abraham, Dr. Abraham S.
Publication: Nishmat Avraham/ Vol.III /Yoreh Deah/ Page 91/ Siman 180
Year: Unknown
65.For Whom May Sabbath Laws be Set Aside
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Author: Abraham, Dr. Abraham S.
Publication: Nishmat Avraham/Vol. I/ Orach Chaim/ Page 216/ Siman 329
Year: Unknown
66.Skin Transplants for Burn Victims
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Author: Yisraeli, Rabbi Shaul
Publication: Cross Roads: Halacha and the Modern World; Page 137
Year: Unknown
67.Chronic Vegetative Patient: A Torah Perspective, The
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Author: Friedman, Dr. Fred
Publication: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society/XXVI, The
Year: 1993, Fall / Succoth 5754
68.Time of Death
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Author: Bleich, Rabbi J. David
Publication: Judaism and Healing
Year: 2002
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House
69.Laws Concerning a Gosses, The
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Author: Abraham, Dr. Abraham S.
Publication: Nishmat Avraham/ VII / Yoreh Deah/ Page 300/ Siman 339
Year: Unknown
70.Living Will, The
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Author: Ifrah, Rabbi A. Jeff
Publication: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society/XXIV, The
Year: 1992, Fall / Succoth 5753
71.Gosses, Responsa - Hebrew
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Author: Auerbach, R. Shlomo Zalman, as discussed by R. Leizersohn, R. Vozber
Publication: Second Intenational Conference on Medicine, Ethics & Halacha
Year: 1996
72.Organ Transplants from Living Donors
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Author: Halperin, Rabbi Mordechai
Publication: ASSIA Journal of Medicine, Ethics & Halacha, Vol. II, No.1
Year: 1991, January
73.Legal Significance of Ruling of the Chief Rabbinate on Heart Transplants
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Author: Halperin, Rabbi Mordechai
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, page 125
Year: 1993
74.Prohibition of Murder
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Author: Nevenzahl, Rabbi Avigdor
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. V, page 259
Year: 1986
75.Overview of Organ Transplantion
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Author: Durst, Prof. Aryeh
Publication: The First International Colloquium on Medicine, Ethics & Halacha
Year: 1993
76.Moment of Death
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Author: Shachter, Rabbi Herschel
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, pages 188-206
Year: 1993
77.Heart and Liver Donation
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Author: Bar Ilan, Rabbi Naphtali
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, pages 177-187
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78.Terminal Patient
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Author: Goldberg, Rabbi Zalman Nechemia
Publication: The First International Coloquium on Medicine, Ethics, & Halacha
Year: 1993
79.Determining the Moment of Death and Heart Transplant
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Author: Steinberg, Dr. Avraham
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, pages 209-230
Year: 1993
80.Brain Stem Death: R. Auerbach
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Author: Auerbach, R. Shlomo Zalman
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, page 148(b) - 148(d)
Year: 1993
81.Trefah
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Author: Ilani, Rabbi Yaacov
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, pages 207-208
Year: 1993
82.Heart Transplant
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Author: Halperin, Rav Mordechai
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83.Are Heart Transplants Allowed by Halacha?
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Author: Halperin, Rabbi Mordechai
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. V., page 55
Year: 1986
84.Saving Lives according to the Teachings of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
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Author: Halperin, Rabbi Dr. Mordechai
Publication: The 2nd International Colloquium on Medicine, Ethics & Halacha
Year: 1996
85.Terminally Ill Patient
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Author: Steinberg, Dr. Avraham
Publication: First & Second International Conference of Medicine, Ethics & Halacha
Year: 1996
86.Choleh Lefaneinu
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Author: Levy, Dr. Yaacov
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 1, page 202
Year: 1989
87.Rav Auerbach
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Author: Auerbach, Rabbi
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88.Prohibition of Organ Donation
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Author: Waldenberg, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, pages 149-162
Year: 1993
89.Modern Perspectives on Halacha & Medicine
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Author: Halperin, Rabbi Mordechai
Publication: ASSIA Journal of Jewish Medical Ethics and Halacha; Vol. I, No. 2
Year: May 1989
90.Permissablity of Heart Transplant: Foundation of Chief Rabbinate's Ruling
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Author: Yisraeli, Rabbi Shaul
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, pages 167-176
Year: 1993
91.Cadavaric and Live Organ Donation
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Author: Yisraeli, Rabbi Shaul
Publication: The First International Colloquium on Medicine, Ethics & Halacha
Year: 1993
92.Heart Transplants
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Author: Wozner, Rabbi Shmuel Halevi
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, pages 163-165
Year: 1993
93.Opinion of the Netziv from Velozhin on Brain-stem Death
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Author: Weiner, Rabbi Yaacov
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, page 166
Year: 1993
94.Jewish Perspectives on Death and Dying
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Author: Rosner, Dr./Rabbi Fred
Publication: ASSIA Journal of Jewish Medical Ethics, Vol.II, No. 1
Year: 1991, January
95.Gosses
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Author: Goldberg, Rabbi Zalman Nechemia
Publication: The First International Colloquium on Medicine, Ethics, & Halacha
Year: 1993
96.Lack of Authority
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Author: Shafran, R. Yigal
Publication: The 2nd International Conference on Medicine, Ethics and Halacha
Year: 1996
97.Personal Story - Chaya Gross
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Author: Gross, Chaya
Publication: ASSIA Book, Vol. 7, pages 231-238
Year: 1993 (Incident occurred in 1986)
98.Thoughts on the Jewish Perspective Regarding Organ Transplantation
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Author: Mayer RNC EdD, Susan L
Publication: Journal of Transplant Coordination
Year: Unknown
HOD Comment: Reprint Requests Phone 800-899-1712 (ext 532), email ivcReprint@aol.com
99.Postmortem- Did Soroka Doctors Do the Right Thing?
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Author: Seigel-Itzkovitch, Judy
Publication: Jerusalem Post, The
Year: 1993, Friday June 25
100.Right to Live, The
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Author: Fishkoff, Sue
Publication: Jerusalem Post, The
Year: 1996 January 19
101.Halachic Insights into Brain-Death: Jerusalem Forum on Medicine and Halacha
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Author: Unknown
Publication: Rabbi Yaakov Weiner, 23 Yonah Street, Jerusalem, 95502, Israel, Tel 02-383-558
Year: Unknown
102.Lethal Legislation
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Author: Robert Berman
Publication: Harvard Review Journal
Year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University
HOD Comment: An editorial advocating the legalization and government regulation of buying and selling organs.
103.The Medical Basis for Determining Brain Stem Death
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Author: Sommer, Professor Haim
Publication: ASSIA 7, pg 129-136
Year: 1993
104.More Regarding Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's Opinion
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Author: Lewinstein, Dr. Israel
Publication: Moment of Death
Year: 2006
Publisher: The Schlesinger Institute
HOD Comment: This article was published and made available by The Schlesinger Institute.
105.Flesh Trade
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Author: Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
Publication: New York Times Magazine
Year: July 9, 2006
106.The Halachic Moment of Death
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Author: Kahana Shapiro, Rav Avraham
Publication: Moment of Death
Year: 2006
Publisher: The Schlesinger Institute
HOD Comment: This article was published and made available by the Schlesinger Institute.
107.Principles in Cardiac Surgery
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Author: Applebaum, Prof Azai
Publication: ASSIA 6, pg 15-19
Year: 1989
108.Cardiac Surgery According to Halacha
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Author: Waldenberg, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda
Publication: ASSIA 6, pg 20-26
Year: 1989
109.Opinion of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
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Author: Levenstein, Dr.Yisrael
Publication: ASSIA 7, pg 145-146
Year: 1993
110.Opinion of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach on Cadavaric Donation
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Author: Avraham, Dr Avraham
Publication: ASSIA 9, 383-385
Year: 2004
111.Organ Donation
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Author: Dick, Rabbi Yehuda
Publication: ASSIA 9, pg 367-377
Year: 2004
112.Organ Transplantation and the Definition of the Moment of Death
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Author: Steinberg, Rabbi Dr. Avraham
Publication: www.medicalethics.org.il
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113.Mishnayot Ohalot 1:6
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Author: Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi was the Editor
Publication: Mishnayot
Year: Circa 200
HOD Comment: Mishna states that is a living organism is decapitated, even though limbs are moving it is dead according to Halacha.
114.Chacham Tzvi Responsa 77
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Author: Chacha Tzvi
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Year: Circa 1700
HOD Comment: Rav Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi, also known as the Chacham Tzvi, was born in 1660 and died in 1718(His son was Rav Yaakov Emden). The Chacham Tzvi was known for his famous ruling that foreigners in Israel need keep only one day of a holiday. This response states that a beating heart is a requirement for life. Some who claim that brain-stem death is not halachic death, quote this responsa to support their position because it claims one needs a beating heart to live seemingly putting emphasis on the heart. Those who accept BSD as halachic death point out that while the Chacham Tzvi writes one needs a beating heart to live, and it necessary for life, it is not sufficient in itself. A analogy would be that an airplane needs an engine to fly and to be called an airplane. But that does not mean if you have a working engine that you have an airplane.
115.Teshuvot Chatam Sofer 338
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Author: Chatam Sofer, otherwise known as Rav Moshe Schreiber
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Year: Circa 1840
HOD Comment: Rav Moshe Schreiber, known as the Chatam Sofer, was born in 1763 in Frankfurt, Germany and died in Pressburg in 1840. While the Neo-Orthodox sought to engage the maskilim (enlighteners) and to directly combat them, the Chatam Sofer adopted the view of "Chadash assur min HaTorah" - all that is novel in religious practice is forbidden by the Torah. Since this response (# 338) states that irreversible cessation of heart beat is one sign of death, those who do not accept BSD as halachic death quote this response as proof that a beating heart, at least according to the Chatam Sofer, is a sign of life and thus a person who is BSD and on a respirator is not dead according to halacha. Those that accept BSD as halachic death point out that a) in the very same response he states that cessation of respiration is the classical definition of death according to Jewish law and to understand this apparent contradiction they point out b) this teshuva was written as a challenge and response to the secular law instituted by the Duke of Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1772 that one must wait 3 days before burying a corpse in order to ensure the person is truly dead. According to this reading, the Chatam Sofer is simply stating the natural order of death in those days (before the invention of a respirator) is unconsciousness, irreversible cessation of heart beat, and then irreversible cessation of respiration. He states Jewish law only requires irreversible cessation of respiration as the determinant of death, but if the secular authorities want to wait even longer they can wait until cessation of heart beat and then bury the person without waiting 3 days.
116.Divrei Chaim
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Publication: Responsum Even Haezer Vol II Listing 64
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117.Textual Variation
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Author: Meiri
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HOD Comment: We see in this text of the Mishna that the Meiri does not quote the heart at all.
118.
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Author: Kesef Mishna Laws of Murders 9 9
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119.
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Publication: Kings 1 Chapter 17 Verse 17 to 24
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120.
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Publication: Kings II Chapt 4 Verse 19 to 37
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121.Heart Transplants
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Author: Minchat Yitzchak Vol 5 Siman 7
Publication: Reponsum Minchat Yitzchak
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122.
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Author: Minchat Yitzchak Vol 5 Siman 8
Publication: Responsum Minchat Yitzchak
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123.Mishna Nidda Chap 10 Misna 4
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124.Mishna Sota Chap 9 Mishna 4
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HOD Comment: Here is a debate between navel and nose.
125.Mishana Yevamot Chap 16 Mishna 3
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126.Moreh Nevuchim Vol I 42
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Author: Ramabam Maimonides
Publication: Moreh Nevuchim Vol I 42
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127.Tractate Niddah 69b
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Publication: Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Niddah Page 96 b
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128.Bet Yosef Orach Chayim 329
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HOD Comment: Textual Varation: It has navel instead of heart.
129.Genesis Chap 2 Verse 7
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HOD Comment: Source of life is breathing.
130.Maimonides Commentary on Mishnayot Yoma Chap 8 Mishna 5
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131.Maimonides Commentary on Mishaynot Sotah Chap 9 Mishna 4
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HOD Comment: Textual Variation: Debate is between navel and nose.
132.Radak on Kings I Chap 17 Verse 17-24
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133.Radbaz Chap 2 Siman 695
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HOD Comment: Pregnant woman dying in labor.
134.Tractate Yevamot 120b
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135.Tractate Yoma Chap 8 Page 45
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HOD Comment: Textual Variation: Here is navel instead of heart.
136.Tur Yoreah Deah 394
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137.Tractate Sotah Page 45b
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138.Samuel 1 Chap 25 Verse 37
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139.Tractate Shabbat Page 151b
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140.Rosh Tractate Yoma Chap 8 Siman 16
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HOD Comment: Textual Variation: It says Navel instead of Heart.
141.Responsum Rivash Siman 45
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142.Rif Yoma Chap 8
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HOD Comment: Textual Variation: Here it states navel instead of heart.
143.Mishna Torah Shabbat Chap 2 Halacha 19
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HOD Comment: Maomonides rules that we only check breathing.
144.Mishnah Torah Laws of Murder Chap 9 Halacha 9
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145.Double Murder
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Author: Feinstein, Rabbi Moshe
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146.Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 339 Paragraph 1
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HOD Comment: Gosses. Things forbidden to do to a deathly ill person that will mostly likely die in 3 days.
147.Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim 329 Saif 4
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HOD Comment: Rules that absence of breathing determines death.
148.Titz Eliezer Chap 13 Siman 89 to 12
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149.Tzitz Eliezer Chap 14 Siman 81
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Author: Waldenberg, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda
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150.Tzitz Eliezer Chap 14 Siman 80
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Author: Waldenberg, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda
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151.Tzitz Eliezer Vol 10 Siman 25 Chap 6
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Author: Waldenberg, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda
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152.Tzitz Eliezer Vol 10 Chap 25 Siman 5
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Author: Waldenberg, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda
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153.Tzitz Eliezer Vol 25 Chap 25 Siman 4
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Author: Waldenberg, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda
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154.Avel Rabbati Chap 3 Halacha 1
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HOD Comment: Laws of Gosses
155.Determing the Moment of Death: Historial, Medical and Halachic Positions
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Author: Steinberg, Rabbi Dr. Avraham
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HOD Comment: 16 pages
156.Determining Death and Comments on the Chief Rabbinate's Ruling
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Author: Avraham, Dr Avraham
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157.Brain Death: Revisiting the Rabbinic Opinions in Light of Current Medical Knowledge
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Author: Kunin, Dr. Joshua
Publication: Tradition 2004, 28:4
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Publisher: Rabbinical Council of America
158.Don't Pull the Plug on Brain Death Just Yet.
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Author: Reichman, Dr. Rabbi Eddie
Publication: Tradition 2004, 28:4
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159.Communications: Brain Death
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Author: Dr. Edward Reichman & Dr. Joshua Kunin
Publication: Tradition
Year: 2005
160.The Case for Living Kidney Sales: Rationale, Objections, and Concerns
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Author: Arthur J. Matas
Publication: American Journal of Transplantation
Year: 2004
Publisher: Blackwell Munksgaard
161.Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th Century America
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Author: Zelizer, Viviana
Publication: The American Journal of Society, Vol. 84, No. 3
Year: 1978
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
162.Kidney Exchange
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Author: Roth, Alivin; Sonmez, Tayfun; Unver, Utku
Publication: The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Year: 2004, May
163.Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations
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Author: Becker, Gary S.; Elias, Julio Jorge
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164.Neurological Determination of Death
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HOD Comment: This is the protocol used in Ontario Canada by physicians to determine brain death.
165.The Diagnosis of Brain Death
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Author: Wijdicks, M.D., Eelco
Publication: New England Journal of Medicine
Year: April 19, 2001
166.Source Sheet Hebrew
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167.Address of John Paul II to the 18th International Congress of the Transplantation Society
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Author: Pope John Paul II
Publication: Libreria Editrice Vaticana
Year: 2000
168.Short and Long Term Outcomes with the use of Kidney and Liver Donated after Cardiac Death
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Author: Doshi and Hunsicker
Publication: American Journal of Transplantation
Year: 2007
169.Pediatric Lived and Kidney Transplantation with Allografts from DCD Donors
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Author: Peter Abt et al
Publication: Transplantation
Year: December 27, 2006
170.Transplantion of Kidneys and Livers Donated after Cardiac Death
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Author: M. D. Doshia and L. G. Hunsickerb
Publication: American Journal of Transplantation
Year: 2007
171.Pediatric Liver and Kidney Transplantation From DCD Donors
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Author: Peter Abt, Randeep Kashyap, Mark Orloff
Publication: Clinical Transplantation
Year: 2006
172.The Economics and Ethics for Human Organs
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Author: Henry Hansmann
Publication: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Year: 1989
173.The International Organ Traffic
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Author: Rothman, David J.
Publication: 10th Annual Conference on
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174.Renal Transplantation: Living Donors and Markets for Body Parts - Halakha in Concert with Halachic Policy or Public Policy
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Author: Rabbi Ronnie Warburg
Publication: Tradition 40:2
Year: 2007
Publisher: Rabbinical Council of America
175.Kidney Donors Live Longer
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Author: Fehrman-Ekholm I., Carl-Gustaf E., Stenbeck M., Tydén G., and Groth C.
Publication: Journal of Clinical Transplantation
Year: 1997
176.Brain Death World Wide
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Author: Dr. Eelco Wijdicks
Publication: American Academy of Neurology
Year: 2005
177.Organs For Change
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Author: Dr. Mark Siegler
Publication: The University of Chicago Magazine
Year: 2007
178.The Morality of a Free Market for Transplant Organs
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Author: Mark Nelson
Publication: Public Affairs Quaterly
Year: 1991
179.Payment for donor kidneys: Pros and cons
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Author: EA Friedman and AL Friedman
Publication: International Journal of Nephrology
Year: 2006
180.÷áåøä éäåãéú ùðééä - "ìé÷åè òöîåú
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Author: Dr. Dorit Gad
Publication: www.hofesh.org.il
Year: 2004
181.Visual Acuity Impairment and Mortality in US Adults
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Author: David Lee, Orlando Gomez-Marin, Bryon Lam, Diane Zheng
Publication: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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182.Visual Impairment and Unintentional Injury Mortality: The National Heath Interview Survey 1986-1994
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Author: David Lee, Orlando Gomez-Marin, Bryon Lam, Diane Zheng
Publication: American Journal of Opthalmology
Year: 2003
HOD Comment: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between reported visual impairment and unintentional injury mortality. It concludes the data provides evidence that severe, bilateral visual impairment is associated with an increased risk of unintentional mortality among adults in the United States. This would seem to support that saving a person from blindness is halachicly as if he is being saved from a life-threatening desease (suma kamet). Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101, USA. dlee@med.miami.edu
183.Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval
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Author: Dr. Mordechai Halperin
Publication: Jewish Medical Ethics
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184.Source Sheet on Organ Donation
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185.Interaction of organ donor families and recipients
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Author: Lewino David, Stocks Lisa, Cole Gail
Publication: Journal of Transplant Coordination
Year: 1996
186.Sales of Organs from a Living Donor for Transplant: Motivation and Decision Making
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Author: Rappoport, Shabtai
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187.Sale or Donation of Human Organs
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Author: Rabbi Alfred Cohen
Publication: The Journal of Halacha
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188.Explaining brain death: a critical feature of the donation process
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Author: Holly Franz, William Dejong, et al.
Publication: Journal of Transplant Coordination
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189.Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation: Process and Review
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Publication: AACN Clinical Issues in Critical Care Nursing
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190.Non-Heart-Beating Donors: One Response to the Organ Shortage
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Author: Anthony M. D'Alessandro, Robert M. Hoffman, & Folkert Belzer
Publication: Transplantation Review
Year: 1995
191.Observations of withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from patients who became non-heart-beating organ donors
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Author: Michael DeVita, James Snyder, Robert M. Arnold & Laura Siminoff
Publication: Critical Care Medicine
Year: 2000
192.Organ Donors: Your care is critical
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Author: John Edwards, Richard Hansz, Jerome Menendez
Publication: RN Journal
Year: 1997
193.There is an answer to the shortage of organs donor
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Author: R. Neal Garrison, Fredrick R. Bentely, et al.
Publication: Surgery, Gynecolgy & Obstetrics
Year: 1991
194.Transplantation of kidneys from donors whose heart have stopped beating
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Author: Yong W. Cho, Paul Terasaki, Phd, Michael Cecka, & David Gjertson
Publication: The New England Journal of Medicine
Year: 1998
195.Future Market: The Sale of Human Body Parts
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Author: Jellinek, Samuel
Publication: Greene Study for Equity Studies
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196.Consideration for a Donation
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Author: Jellinke, Samuel
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197.The Potential Benefits of the Pediatric Nonheartbeating Organ Donor
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Author: Tracy Kroogler and Andrew T. Costarino
Publication: American Academy of Pediatrics
Year: 1998
198.Consideration for a Donation: Economic Aspects, Powerpoint Presentation
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Author: Jellinek, Samuel
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199.Consideration of a Donation- Powerpoint Presentation
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200.îåñø ëìéåú
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201.Organ Transplants from Living Donors (Kidneys)
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Author: Ronit Kedem-Dror
Publication: Knesset Library
Year: 2003
202.Enough: The Failure Of The Living Will
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Author: Angela Fagerlin and Carl E. Schneider
Publication: Hastings Center Report
Year: 2004
203.Nostrils, Navel or Heart?
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Author: Rabbi Alex Tal, Ph.D.
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Year: 2007
HOD Comment: This article evaluates the textual variations of Talmud Yoma 85a concerning the sign of life and death. While the standard printed edition of the Talmud, records the debate as between checking the nostrils (respiration) and the heart (for heartbeat) most manuscripts including, the Talmud Yerushalmi, record the debate as between the nostrils and the navel.
204.People v. Eulo
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Year: 1984
HOD Comment: In two separate criminal cases, defendants had been convicted of manslaughter in the shooting deaths of victims whose families had donated their organs for transplantation after they had been declared brain dead. The New York Court of Appeals affirmed both lower court decisions, holding that the term "death" as used in state statutes encompasses cessation of functioning of the entire brain even if the heartbeat and breathing are being sustained by artificial means and that, if victims are properly diagnosed as dead, no subsequent medical procedure such as organ removal can be deemed a cause of death.
205.An Equitable Distribution of Human Organs for Transplantation: Sale of Organs from a Living Donor for Transplant: Motivation and Decision Making
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Author: Rabbi Shabtai Rappoport
Publication: Greene Fund for Equity Studies
Year: 2006
206.Sephardic Ruling on Brain-Stem Death
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Author: Rabbi Amar
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207.Payment for Donor Kidneys: Pros and Cons
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Author: EA Friedman and Al Friedman
Publication: Kidney International
Year: 2006
Publisher: International Society of Nephrology
208.Retrospective Follow-Up of Transplantation of Kidneys from 'Marginal' Donors
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Author: D. Dahmane et al.
Publication: Kidney International
Year: 2006
Publisher: International Society of Nephrology
209.Why We Should Develop a Regulated System of Kidney Sales: A Call for Action!
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Author: Arthur J. Matas
Publication: The American Society of Nephrology
Year: 2006
210.An Ethical Market in Human Organs
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Author: Charles Erin and John Harris
Publication: J. Med. Ethics
Year: 2003
211.Brain Death
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Author: J.M. Elliot
Publication: Trauma
Year: 2003
212.Ethical Incentives-- Not Payment-- For Organ Donation
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Publication: The New England Journal of Medicine
Year: 2002
Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society
213.Methods and Principles in biomedical Ethics
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Author: T.L. Beauchamp
Publication: J. Med. Ethics
Year: 2003
214.Expanding the Donor Pool: Effect on Graft Outcome
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Author: E. Ramos, S. Aoun, W.E. Hermon
Publication: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Year: 2002
Publisher: The American Society of Nephrology
215.Kaddish for J.J. Greenberg
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Author: Jonathan Mark
Publication: Jewish Week Blog
Year: 2008
Publisher: The Jewish Week Blog
HOD Comment: Written for the sixth yahrtzeit of J.J. Greenberg, Tuesday, the 8th of Tishrei (Oct. 7, 2008)
216.Organ Transplantation in Israel of 2007 - realitty and vision
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Author: Gurman, G.M.
Publication: Harefuah:147 (5)
Year: 2008


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