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 fo...

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Main Authors: Potts, Michael. (Author), Byrne, Paul A. (Author), Nilges, Richard G. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2000.
Series:Philosophy and Medicine ; 66
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505 0 # |a Introduction: Beyond Brain Death -- Brain DeathỚ the Patient, the Physician, and Society -- Metaphysical Misgivings about ỚSBrain DeathỚ<U+00fd> -- Pro-Life Support of the Whole Brain Death Criterion: A Problem of Consistency -- The Demise of ỚSBrain DeathỚ<U+00fd> in Britain -- Brain Stem Death: A United Kingdom AnaesthetistỚ"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 NeurosurgeonỚ"s Perspective. 
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