Beyond brain death
Subtitle: the case against brain based criteria for human death
By: by Michael Potts, Paul A. Byrne, and Richard G. Nilges.
Contributors: Byrne, Paul A.; Nilges, Richard G.
Series: Philosophy and medicine -- v.66
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Brain death
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Beyond brain death; title: Brain death- the patient, the physician, and society; title: Metaphysical misgivings about "brain death"; title: Pro-life support of the whole brain death criteria: a problem of consistency; title: The demise of "brain death" in Britain; title: Brain stem death: a United Kingdom anaesthetist's view; title: Brain death and cardiac transplantation: historical background and unsettled controversies in Japan; title: Philosophical and cultural attitudes against brain death and organ transplantation in Japan; title: Brain death and euthanasia; title: The moment of death and the morally safer path; title: A narrative case against brain death; title: Organ transplantation, brain death, and the slippery slope: a neurosurgeon's perspective.