Beyond 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 narrative case against brain death -- Organ transplantation, brain death, and the slippery slope: a neurosurgeon's perspective. |