Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death (2000) (Philosophy and Medicine #66)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2000

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780306468827

Related ISBNs:

9780792365785

Publisher:

Springer Netherlands

Date of Addition:

12/12/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

M. Potts

Edited by:

P.A. Byrne

Edited by:

R.G. Nilges