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Death and Donation: Rethinking Brain Death as a Means of Procuring Transplantable Organs - Couverture souple

Henderson, D. Scott

 
9781608996223: Death and Donation: Rethinking Brain Death as a Means of Procuring Transplantable Organs
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ISBN 10 : 1608996220 ISBN 13 : 9781608996223
Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2011

Synopsis

Since its inception in 1968, the brain-death criterion for human death has enjoyed the status of one of the few relatively well-settled issues in bioethics. However, over the last fifteen years or so, a growing number of experts in medicine, philosophy, and religion have come to regard brain death as an untenable criterion for the determination of death. Given that the debate about brain death has occupied a relatively small group of professionals, few are aware that brain death fails to correspond to any coherent biological or philosophical conception of death. This is significant, for if the brain-dead are not dead, then the removal of their vital organs for transplantation is the direct cause of their deaths, and a violation of the Dead Donor Rule. This unique monograph synthesizes the social, legal, medical, religious, and philosophical problems inherent in current social policy allowing for organ donation under the brain-death criterion. In so doing, this bioethical appraisal offers a provocative investigation of the ethical quandaries inherent in the way transplantable organs are currently procured. Drawing together these multidisciplinary threads, this book advocates the abandonment of the brain-death criterion in light of its adverse failures, and concludes by laying the groundwork for a new policy of death in an effort to further the good of organ donation and transplantation.

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À propos de l'auteur

D. Scott Henderson is Assistant Professor of Bioethics at Luther Rice University. He has worked in hospitals in Ohio and Pennsylvania as an in-service lecturer and policy writer and was an adviser and research assistant for the inception of Franciscan University's Institute of Bioethics in Steubenville, OH.

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Éditeur
Pickwick Publications
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1608996220
ISBN 13 
9781608996223
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
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