The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 24, Issue 6 (2024)

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Editorial

Editorial
Resuscitating the Dead: NRP and Language
David Magnus
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Target Articles

Target Article
The Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death Conceptually Justifies Death Determination in DCDD and NRP Protocols
James L. Bernat
Pages: 4-15
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Ethical and Equity Guidance for Transplant Programs Considering Thoracoabdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion (TA-NRP) for Procurement of Hearts
Denise M. Dudzinski, Jay D. Pal & James N. Kirkpatrick
Pages: 16-26
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Restoring the Organism as a Whole: Does NRP Resurrect the Dead?
Emil J. N. Busch
Pages: 27-33
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Target Article
An Ethics Committee’s Evaluation of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) in 2018–Unsatisfactory Answers Then—and Now
Arthur R. Derse
Pages: 34-37
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Normothermic Regional Perfusion, Public Reason, and the Idea of Integrated Organismic Function
Jin K. Park, Samuel N. Doernberg & Robert D. Truog
Pages: 38-40
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Moving Forward With Normothermic Regional Perfusion Amidst Ethical Controversy
Jason N. Batten, Michael Nurok, Miriam P. Cotler, Bradley L. Adams, Richard Hasz, Kristopher P. Croome, Jordan Hoffman & Anji Wall
Pages: 41-43
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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New Reasons to Revise the UDDA: Controversies Related to Death by Circulatory-Respiratory Criteria
Ariane Lewis
Pages: 44-46
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
A Clarified Interpretation of Permanence Justifies Death Determination in NRP Protocols
Brendan Parent, Carrie Thiessen, Anji Wall, Macey Levan & Elisa J. Gordon
Pages: 46-48
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Requesting an Autopsy of the Dead Donor Rule: Improving, Not Abandoning, the Guiding Rule in Organ Donation
Tamar Schiff & Arthur Caplan
Pages: 48-50
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
NRP: Neither Perfusion nor Regional
Matthew W. DeCamp & Lois Snyder Sulmasy
Pages: 50-53
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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NRP Possibly Violates “Do No Harm” and Is Not Worth Risking the Perception That It Does
Andrew Flescher, Sanjay Kulkarni & Keren Ladin
Pages: 54-56
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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The Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death: Conceptual Challenges
David Rodríguez-Arias & Anne Dalle Ave
Pages: 57-60
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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The Challenge of Framing the Discourse of Normothermic Regional Perfusion
Michael A. Rubin
Pages: 60-62
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Gerrymandering Circulation: Why NRP is Inconsistent with the Dead Donor Rule
Adam Omelianchuk
Pages: 62-66
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
To Procure Organs for Transplantation, Normothermic Regional Perfusion and Brain Death Dislocate Circulation and Brain from an Integrated Concept of Embodied Persons
Lauris Christopher Kaldjian
Pages: 66-69
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Distinguishing Ethical from Diagnostic Concerns About NRP-cDCD
Kyle E. Karches & Jason T. Eberl
Pages: 69-71
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Revivification in ECPR and TA-NRP: A Consideration of Intent and Impact
Rachel G. Clarke & Christian J. Vercler
Pages: 71-73
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
A Legal Pathway Aligning Law and the Practice of NRP
Alexandra Glazier
Pages: 73-76
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Change the Law to Optimize Organ Donation
John W. Entwistle & Robert M. Sade
Pages: 76-79
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
“Essentially as One of Fact to Be Determined by Physicians”: Applying Lessons Learned From Brain Death to Normothermic Regional Perfusion
Erica Andrist & Matthew P. Kirschen
Pages: 79-81
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Medicine, Bioethics, and the Search for Truth: Does “Declaring” Death Make It So?
Kathleen N. Fenton & Anne Dalle Ave
Pages: 82-84
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
“Time Is Brain:” DCDD-NRP Invalidates the Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death
L. Syd M Johnson
Pages: 84-86
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
The Unified Brain Based Determination of Death and DCCD/NRP: Curb Your Enthusiasm
G. Kevin Donovan & Christopher DeCock
Pages: 87-88
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Public Opinion of DDR and Public Trust
Lynette Cederquist & Gabriel Schnickel
Pages: 89-91
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Zion Hagay, Yossi Walfisch & Malke Borow
Page: W1
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Correspondence

Reply
Beyond Trade-Offs: Autonomy, Effectiveness, Fairness, and Normativity in Risk and Crisis Communication
Federico Germani, Giovanni Spitale & Nikola Biller-Andorno
Pages: W2-W5
Published online: 20 May 2024
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