Causing death
Subtitle: reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life
By: Franklin G. Miller and Robert D. Truog
Contributors: Truog, Robert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780199739172
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Euthanasia; Withholding Treatment; Medical Ethics; Ethics; Procurement of organs, tissues; Active Euthanasia
Table of contents: title: Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: allowing to die or causing death?; title: Active euthanasia; title: Death and the brain; title: Challenges to a circulatory-respiratory criterion for death; title: Donation after circulatory determination of death; title: Vital organ donation without the dead donor rule; title: Legal fictions approach to organ donation.