Death, dying, and organ transplantation: reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life

Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: allowing to die or causing death? -- Active euthanasia -- Death and the brain -- Challenges to a circulatory-respiratory criterion for death -- Donation after circulatory determination of death -- Vital organ donation without the dead donor rule -- Legal fictio...

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Beteiligte Personen: Miller, Franklin G. (VerfasserIn), Truog, Robert D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2012
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Zusammenfassung:Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: allowing to die or causing death? -- Active euthanasia -- Death and the brain -- Challenges to a circulatory-respiratory criterion for death -- Donation after circulatory determination of death -- Vital organ donation without the dead donor rule -- Legal fictions approach to organ donation
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:IX, 196 S. 25 cm
ISBN:9780199739172
019973917X