Screen LibraryBeyond brain death：the case against brain based criteria for human death
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht Boston |
| Publication Dates: | 2000. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Philosophy and medicine ; v.66 |
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| Carrier Form: | 270 p.: ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 079236578X (hc. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | R651 |
| CLC: |
R651.1 R-052 |
| Call Number: | R651.1/P871 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Introduction: Beyond brain death -- Brain death- the patient, the physician, and society -- Metaphysical misgivings about "brain death" -- Pro-life support of the whole brain death criteria: a problem of consistency -- The demise of "brain death" in Britain -- Brain stem death: a United Kingdom anaesthetist's view -- Brain death and cardiac transplantation: historical background and unsettled controversies in Japan -- Philosophical and cultural attitudes against brain death and organ transplantation in Japan -- Brain death and euthanasia -- The moment of death and the morally safer path -- A |