Beyond Brain Death

The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death

M. Potts, P.A. Byrne, R.G. Nilges (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2000 | 2000 ed.
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-6578-5 (ISBN)

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Beyond Brain Death offers a provocative challenge to one of the most widely accepted conclusions of contemporary bioethics: the position that brain death marks the death of the human person. Eleven chapters by physicians, philosophers, and theologians present the case against brain-based criteria for human death. Each author believes that this position calls into question the moral acceptability of the transplantation of unpaired vital organs from brain-dead patients who have continuing function of the circulatory system. One strength of the book is its international approach to the question: contributors are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, and Japan. This book will appeal to a wide audience, including physicians and other health care professionals, philosophers, theologians, medical sociologists, and social workers.

Introduction: Beyond Brain Death.- Brain Death—the Patient, the Physician, and Society.- Metaphysical Misgivings about “Brain Death”.- Pro-Life Support of the Whole Brain Death Criterion: A Problem of Consistency.- The Demise of “Brain Death” in Britain.- Brain Stem Death: A United Kingdom Anaesthetist’s View.- Brain Death and Cardiac Transplantation: Historical Background and Unsettled Controversies in Japan.- Philosophical and Cultural Attitudes Against Brain Death and Organ Transplantation in Japan.- Brain Death and Euthanasia.- The Moment of Death and the Morally Safer Path.- A Narrative Case Against Brain Death.- Organ Transplantation, Brain Death and the Slippery Slope: A Neurosurgeon’s Perspective.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2000
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy and Medicine ; 66
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 274 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Pathologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-7923-6578-X / 079236578X
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-6578-5 / 9780792365785
Zustand	Neuware