附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 criteria: 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.
摘要:"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 unimpaired 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."--Jacket.
