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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"Strange business" -- The justification : Beecher's ethics -- The law -- The criteria I : the waking brain and the discourse of consciousness -- The criteria II : the working brain and the comatose patient -- Brain death after Beecher and the limits of bioethics. |
Summary |
Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of criticism and scrutiny of the bioethics movement. Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death looks at the work of the Committee in a way that has not been attempted before in terms of tracing back the context of its own sources-the reasoning of it Chair, Henry K Beecher, and the care of patients i. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Brain death -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Brain death -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Brain death. |
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Consciousness.
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Consciousness. |
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Bioethics.
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Bioethics. |
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Belkin, Gary S. Death before Dying. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014 1306296900 |
ISBN |
9780199969623 (electronic book) |
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0199969620 (electronic book) |
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1306296900 (e-book) |
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9781306296908 (e-book) |
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