Transplants and Brain death

Date:
1968-1991
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PP/MHP/D.2
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Pappworth, Maurice
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Comprises the following:

  • PP/MHP/D.2/1: newspaper cuttings on transplant death rates, 4 items, dated 1968-1970
  • PP/MHP/D.2/2: letters from Elman Poole and newspaper and journal cuttings concerning electroencephalograms (EEGs), 8 items, dated 1968-1981
  • PP/MHP/D.2/3: letters from Robert Plain concerning brain death, 3 items, dated 1969
  • PP/MHP/D.2/4: letters from Jack Saltman (Panorama) thanking Pappworth for his participation in the programme transmitted on July 14, dated 1969
  • PP/MHP/D.2/5: organ transplants bill, dated 1969
  • PP/MHP/D.2/6: copy newspaper article concerning Cambridge Union debate in which Pappworth took part in supporting the motion of not using organs once clinical death had been established, dated 1970
  • PP/MHP/D.2/7: letters from David Evans concerning article he wrote for the British Journal of Hospital Medicine, with said article attached, "Brain Stem death - 20 Years On", and copy of letter he wrote to BMJ and articles on brain stem death and transplants; two articles by D. Evans on organ transplants; editorial comment about article Pappworth wrote in World Medicine; copy letter to Prof Slaney from Evans et al re diagnosis of death and two letters from Evans to Drs Dawson & Hoffenberg re `Daytime' tv programme (aired December 1986); "Brain Stem Death - 10 Years On" by D. W. Evans and D. J. Hill, dated 1970-1991
  • PP/MHP/D.2/8: Organ Transplantation and the Law. An Abridgement of a Report of the Law Reform Committee of the Bar Council From? Law Guardians, dated 1971
  • PP/MHP/D.2/9: letters from Baroness van Till concerning brain death. Also includes a copy of "Guidelines for the Determination of Death", 4 items, dated 1971-1982
  • PP/MHP/D.2/10: letter from Dr. David Owen concerning transplantation and the concept of brain death, dated 1975
  • PP/MHP/D.2/11: Death and Law by Enrique Carlos Zarate, Criterio, No. 1746, dated 1976
  • PP/MHP/D.2/12: extract from an article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and a newspaper article concerning The Maclennan Report and annotated notes by Pappworth, 3 items, dated 1979
  • PP/MHP/D.2/13: letter to the editor of World Medicine concerning Pappworth's article "The Definition of Death", dated 1982
  • PP/MHP/D.2/14: paper entitled `Definition of Death' and extract reprint from Journal of Medical Ethics on 'Jewish Medical Ethics - A Brief Overview', 2 items, dated 1983
  • PP/MHP/D.2/15: letter from Bradley K. Evans, M.D. re ethics of experiments, dated 1991
  • PP/MHP/D.2/16: letter to unknown person re 'The MacLennan Report on Transplants', dated c.1969

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    1968-1991

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