organ-harvesting Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 5, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsBiologyMedicine Tagged , bioethicists, brain, brain death, cardiac arrest, circulation, cognitive disabilities, comatose, consciousness, desire, equality, health care, heart, human life, intention, medicine, memory, New York Times, organ donors, organ recipients, organ-harvesting, organs, patients, transplant medicine, trust Killing for Organs — Who Could Possibly Object? Wesley J. Smith August 5, 2025 Bioethics, Biology, Medicine 4 Three doctors promote the idea of “redefining death” to allow patients to be killed for their organs. Read More ›
varun-gaba-TYVDhM6guHA-unsplash 2 Type post Author Michael Egnor Date April 24, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain blood flow, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, mannerisms, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, tennis, vegetative state, walking Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions Michael Egnor April 24, 2025 Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›
surgery Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 30, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineScience Tagged , American College of Physicians, Arizona, brain death, cardiac arrest, death, doctors, heart, heartbeat, irreversibility, Jahi McMath, medicine, Nebraska, new york, organ farms, organ-transplant surgery, University of California San Francisco Are Transplant Doctors Causing Brain Death? Wesley J. Smith September 30, 2022 Bioethics, Medicine, Science 4 A new and highly problematic means of obtaining organs is pushing the boundaries of the “dead donor rule." Read More ›
China Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 12, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __edited, Apple, Boeing, brain death, China, cornea, hearts, human rights, kidneys, lethal injection, lungs, Nike, organ harvesting, prisoners, private sector, skin, South Carolina, United States China Credibly Accused of Organ-Harvesting Atrocity Wesley J. Smith March 12, 2020 Bioethics, Medicine 3 A report presents shocking evidence of horrific human-rights abuses, including from witness testimony, analyses of public records, and reviewing of scholarly reports. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 1, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, brain death, Dartmouth College, dehydration, Jahi McMath, Michael Schiavo, neurology, Terri Schiavo, The New Yorker, video More Myths of Terri Schiavo Wesley J. Smith February 1, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 3 One myth is that the family somehow edited videos of Terri to make it appear falsely that she was conscious. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date September 15, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, brain death, California, death certificate, Jahi McMath, life, neuroscience, New Jersey, Wesley Smith Wesley Smith Visits Jahi McMath David Klinghoffer September 15, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 2 “I nearly jumped out of my shoes,” Wesley reports. I think I would, too. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 10, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, brain death, California, Jahi McMath, New Jersey, Thaddeus Mason Pope Is Recovery from Brain Death Possible? Wesley J. Smith July 10, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 5 This case is a matter of tremendous importance. Read More ›
