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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.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Medicine: general issues Medical profession

• Full title: Beyond Brain Death
• Subtitle: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death
• Author: M. Potts, P.A. Byrne, R. G. Nilges
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 274
• EAN: 9780792365785
• ISBN: 079236578X
• ID: 01396547
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 1290 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2000

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