Commentary: Clear Thinking and Open Discussion Guide IOM's Report on Organ Donation

Institute of Medicine, Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation: Medical and Ethical Issues in Procurement (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997): At v.

See id.

See Menikoff J. , “Doubts About Death: The Silence of the Institute of Medicine,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 26 (1998): 157–65.

Id. at 161–62 (citation omitted).

Id. at 158 (citation omitted).

Institute of Medicine, supra note 1, at 3; and Menikoff , supra note 3, at 162.

Uniform Determination of Death Act, § 1, 12 U.L.A. 340 (Supp. 1991).

See Safar P. , “Resuscitation of the Ischemic Brain,” in Albian M.S. , ed., Textbook of Neuroanesthesia (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977): Ch. 17; and Bernat J.L. , “A Defense of the Whole-Brain Concept of Death,” Hastings Center Report, 28, no. 2 (1998): 14–23.

Menikoff , supra note 3, at 162 (original emphasis).