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Death, dying, and organ transplantation : reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life / Franklin G. Miller and Robert D. Truog.
Holman Biotech Commons R726 .M5525 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Franklin G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Euthanasia.
- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.
- Withholding Treatment--ethics.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Euthanasia, Active--ethics.
- Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Withholding Treatment--ethics.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Euthanasia, Active--ethics.
- Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 196 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: allowing to die or causing death?
- Active euthanasia
- Death and the brain
- Challenges to a circulatory-respiratory criterion for death
- Donation after circulatory determination of death
- Vital organ donation without the dead donor rule
- Legal fictions approach to organ donation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780199739172
- 019973917X
- OCLC:
- 698580717
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