The New Definitions of Death for Organ Donation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis from the Perspective of Christian Ethics. Foreword by Professor Josef M. by Nguyen, Doyen

The New Definitions of Death for Organ Donation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis from the Perspective of Christian Ethics. Foreword by Professor Josef M. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783034332774)

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The New Definitions of Death for Organ Donation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis from the Perspective of Christian Ethics. Foreword by Professor Josef M. by Nguyen, Doyen

The New Definitions of Death for Organ Donation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis from the Perspective of Christian Ethics. Foreword by Professor Josef M.

$163.40
The New Definitions of Death for Organ Donation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis from the Perspective of Christian Ethics. Foreword by Professor Josef M. by Nguyen, Doyen

The New Definitions of Death for Organ Donation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis from the Perspective of Christian Ethics. Foreword by Professor Josef M.

$163.40
Format: Paperback
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Critical analysis of the moral soundness of the "brain death" and "controlled cardiac/circulatory death" protocols used in organ transplantation. Analyzes the rationales supporting these new definitions of death, and argues against them, showing that they contradict both Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics and contemporary biophilosophy.



Author: Doyen Nguyen
ISBN-10: 3034332777
ISBN-13: 9783034332774
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2018
Pages: 590
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.10w x 1.50d
By Doyen Nguyen
By Doyen Nguyen
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Doyen Nguyen, MD, STD is both a theologian and a hematopathologist. A graduate of Temple University Medical School and a scholar of the Leopold Schepp Foundation, she is a lay Dominican and, currently, an independent academic researcher associated with the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome where she obtained her doctorate in moral theology, specializing in end-of-life ethics.

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