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Beyond Brain Death

The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-7923-6578-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erscheinungstermin: 30.09.2000
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780792365785
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-7923-6578-5
  • Verlag: Springer Netherlands
  • Erscheinungstermin: 30.09.2000
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2000
  • Serie: Philosophy and Medicine
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 1290 g
  • Seiten: 274
  • Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 21 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Themen


Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

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 Criterion: 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.