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Can Unity On the Issue of ‘Brain Death’ Be Achieved Among Catholics? by Joseph M. Eble, MD – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Joseph M. Eble, MD, Catholic World Report, March 10, 2025

Joseph M. Eble, MD, is Vice President of Fidelis Radiology and former President of the Tulsa Guild of the Catholic Medical Association. He is passionate about end of life care, adoption, and building bridges between persons of different ethnicity. He has authored and co-authored many articles on “brain death,” most recently “Catholics United on Brain Death and Organ Donation: A Call to Action”. He is currently working on a book on “brain death” with co-author D. Alan Shewmon, MD, with particular focus on its reception among Catholics and compatibility with the Catholic faith. He may be reached at eblej@yahoo.com.

It is an incontrovertible reality that moral certainty does not exist that “brain-dead” patients are dead.

On February 27-28, 2025, a Symposium on “brain death” was held at The Catholic University of America titled “ Integrity in the Concept and Determination of Brain Death: Recent Challenges in Medicine, Law, and Ethics .”

Questions addressed at the Symposium included:

How/Can we ensure, with moral certitude, that patients determined to be dead by neurologic criteria are dead according to the standards of a sound Christian anthropology and the law? [emphasis added]

How/Can testing protocols for brain death be improved to accurately, consistently, and efficiently identify which patients are dead by neurologic criteria and which are not? [emphasis added] ….

Can Unity On the Issue of ‘Brain Death’ Be Achieved Among Catholics? by Joseph M. Eble, MD

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By Joseph M. Eble, MD, Catholic World Report, March 10, 2025

It is an incontrovertible reality that moral certainty does not exist that “brain-dead” patients are dead.

On February 27-28, 2025, a Symposium on “brain death” was held at The Catholic University of America titled “ Integrity in the Concept and Determination of Brain Death: Recent Challenges in Medicine, Law, and Ethics .”

Questions addressed at the Symposium included:

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