Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792365785)

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.

Author: M. Potts
ISBN-10: 079236578X
ISBN-13: 9780792365785
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2000
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.46w x 0.84d