Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death

M. Potts (Curatore)

P.A. Byrne (Curatore)

Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2001

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.

• Curatore: M. Potts, P.A. Byrne
• Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Anno: 2001
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 274 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9781402003660

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