Purchase "Ten Perfect Fingers" by Brenda Winner
Other Books of Interest on Anencephaly and Organ Transplants
by Melba Colgrove, Harold H. Bloomfield, and Peter McWilliams
One of the most directly helpful books on the subject of loss ever written.
Understanding the Experience of Pregnancy Loss, Miscarriage, and Abortion "
by Kim Kluger-Bell
Kluger-Bell examines the "shadow side" of being pregnant--the unspoken grief
of losing a pregnancy before birth through miscarriage, abortion, or stillbirth.
by Reg Green
In 1994, when their 7-year-old son, Nicholas, was killed during a botched car-jacking,
Reg and Maggie Green galvanized all of Italy--and the world--by donating Nicholas's organs
to seven desperately sick Italians, becoming a model of a grief-stricken family
seeking to create good from horror, to reject vengeance in the face of great loss,
to work for justice, and to proclaim--with each of their grace-filled actions--
the superiority of love over hate.
Order "The Ethics of Organ Transplants : The Current Debate "
edited by Arthur L. Caplan and Daniel H. Coelho
With more than 30 of the most important, influential, and up-to-date articles
from leaders in ethics, medicine, philosophy, law, and politics, "The Ethics of
Organ Transplants" examines the numerous and tangled issues that surround organ
procurement and distribution.
Order "Brain Dead, Brain Absent, Brain Donors : Human Subjects or Human Objects?"
by Peter McCullagh
A review of the history of the concept of brain death, and assesses the pragmatic
and moral issues related to organ "harvesting" from ancephalic newborns and
transplants that use fetal brain tissue. Mr. McCullagh asserts that the concept of
"death" is ill-defined by the medical comuunity, and that the public is being kept out
of a crucial debate facing society as a whole.
