Beyond Brain Death(English, Online resource, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.)

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Beyond Brain Death(English, Online resource, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.) is written by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. and published by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0306468824 (ISBN 10) and 9780306468827 (ISBN 13).

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.