Medical Halachah: The Total Artificial Heart: Implantation and Removal

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July 03 2017
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Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Halacha:
Medical Ethics,  Medicine 

Collections: Rabbi Torczyner Medical Halacha

References: Yoma: 85a ,  Chullin: 33a ,  Chullin: 32b ,  Gittin: 76b ,  Gittin: 70b  

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A non-comprehensive shiur, primarily addressing two questions: (1) Within the view that a person with a beating heart is alive, is halting the natural heart an act of murder? (2) May one halt a functioning Total Artificial Heart in a person who no longer has detectable neural function?

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