Death before Dying
Subtitle: History, Medicine, and Brain Death
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 26, 2014
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199898176
Notes: Source title: Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Strange Business; label: 2
title: The Justification: Beecher's Ethics; label: 3
title: The Law; label: 4
title: The Criteria I: The Waking Brain--Brainstem and the Discourse of Consciousness; label: 5
title: The Criteria II: The Working Brain: The Comatose Patient and the Biology of Consciousness; label: 6
title: Brain Death After Beecher and the Limits of Bioethics