Death and donation
Subtitle: rethinking brain death as a means for procuring transplantable organs
By: by D. Scott Henderson
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781608996223
Subjects: Donation of organs, tissues; Brain death
Description: Synthesizes the social, legal, medical, religious, and philosophical problems inherent in current social policy allowing for organ donation under the brain-death criterion. Henderson offers an investigation of the ethical quandaries inherent in the way transplantable organs are currently procured. He advocates the abandonment of the brain-death criterion in light of its adverse failures, and concludes by laying the groundwork for a new policy of death in an effort to further the good of organ donation and transplantation. From publisher description.
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Duquesne University, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: The origin of the brain death standard; title: Medical misgivings with brain death; title: Social policy problems with brain death; title: Philosophical problems with brain death; title: Advancing alternatives to brain death; title: An ethical analysis of  brain death; title: Proposing a new method for death and donation.