Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death
Beyond Brain Death offers a provocative challenge to one of the most widely accepted conclusions of contemporary bioethics: the position that brain death marks the death of the human person. Eleven chapters by physicians, philosophers, and theologians present the case against brain-based criteria for human death. Each author believes that this position calls into question the moral acceptability of the transplantation of unpaired vital organs from brain-dead patients who have continuing function of the circulatory system. One strength of the book is its international approach to the question: contributors are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, and Japan. This book will appeal to a wide audience, including physicians and other health care professionals, philosophers, theologians, medical sociologists, and social workers.
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Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death
Beyond Brain Death offers a provocative challenge to one of the most widely accepted conclusions of contemporary bioethics: the position that brain death marks the death of the human person. Eleven chapters by physicians, philosophers, and theologians present the case against brain-based criteria for human death. Each author believes that this position calls into question the moral acceptability of the transplantation of unpaired vital organs from brain-dead patients who have continuing function of the circulatory system. One strength of the book is its international approach to the question: contributors are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, and Japan. This book will appeal to a wide audience, including physicians and other health care professionals, philosophers, theologians, medical sociologists, and social workers.
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Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death
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Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780792365785 |
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| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands |
| Publication date: | 09/30/2000 |
| Series: | Philosophy and Medicine , #66 |
| Edition description: | 2000 |
| Pages: | 274 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.03(d) |
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