Wrapped in Mourning
Subtitle: The Gift of Life and Donor Family Trauma (The Series in Trauma and Loss)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 14, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781583910566
Subjects: Ethical issues & debates; Psychotherapy - General; Mental Health; Emotions; Death / Grief / Consolation; Psychology; Psychological aspects; Organ donors; Death, Grief, Bereavement; Physician & Patient; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Bereavement; Grief; Loss (Psychology)
First sentence: Transplantation is made possible because of a new class of patients who have been determined to be dead via neurological rather than cardiopulmonary criteria.