Death and Donation: Rethinking Brain Death as a Means of

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

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.
Country USA
Brand Pickwick Publications
Manufacturer Pickwick Publications
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781608996223
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Pickwick Publications
Manufacturer	Pickwick Publications
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781608996223
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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

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