Potts / Byrne / Nilges Beyond Brain Death

The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death
2000
ISBN: 978-0-306-46882-7
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 66, 274 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Philosophy and Medicine

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Potts, M.

Byrne, P.A.

Nilges, R.G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.