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Harvard's ABC Background Session 1

March 26, 2018
6:30 PM - 7:45 PM
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Fairchild 601B

This is the first background session for Harvard's ABC. We will be reviewing the following works and articles for Day 1 of the conference:

Topic 1: The Harvard Report (1968)| "A definition of irreversible coma." JAMA 252, no. 5 (1984): 667-679. 

Topic 2: Brain death (1968-2018) | Michael, A. "History of brain death as death: 1968 to the present." Journal of Critical Care 29, no. 4 (2014): 673-678.

Topic 3: Is brain death a coherent and justified concept for determining death?" | Shewman, A. "Response to Council's White Paper, "Controversies in the Determination of Death." (2007).

Topic 4: Brain death and the law | Truog, R.D., and Franklin G. Miller. "Changing the conversation about brain death." The American Journal of Bioethics 14, no. 8 (2014): 9-14.

Topic 5: Jahi McMath | Aviv, R. "What Does it Mean to Die? " (2018).