Beyond Brain Death The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death /

• Main Authors: Potts, Michael (Author), Byrne, Paul A. (Author), Nilges, Richard G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2000.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine ; 66
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Neurology.; Surgical transplantation.; Medical laws and legislation.; Transplant Surgery.; Medical Law.

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 fo...

Table of Contents:

• 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.