The Concept of Brain Death Did Not Evolve to Benefit Organ Transplants -- The First Organ Transplant from a Brain-Dead Donor -- Conceptual Approach to Human Death on Neurological Grounds -- Clinical Diagnosis of Brain Death -- Ancillary Tests in Brain Death Confirmation -- Brain Death in Children -- Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States and Other Disturbances of Consciousness -- Brain Death and Organ Transplantation: Ethical Issues -- Legal Considerations on the Determination and Certification of Human Death.