ISBN:
9780306468827
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource
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v.: digital
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. Springer-11648
Ausgabe:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
Serie:
Philosophy and Medicine 66
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Schlagwort(e):
Philosophy (General)
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Public health laws
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Surgical transplantation.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
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Ethics
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Neurology
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Medical laws and legislation.
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Hirntod
Kurzfassung:
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.
Kurzfassung:
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.
DOI:
10.1007/0-306-46882-4
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