Diagnosing death : issues, ethics and questions in death determinations / Luka Prokovyev, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prokovyev, Luka.

Series:

Ethical issues in the 21st century series.

Ethical issues in the 21st century series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.).

Brain death--Diagnosis--United States.

Brain death.

Diagnostic erros--United States--Prevention.

Diagnostic erros.

Medical ethics--United States.

Medical ethics.

Medical policy--United States.

Medical policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The question of how and by what standard an individual should be declared dead is once more a matter of controversy. With this book, the President's Council on Bioethics takes up this controversy and illuminates the issues at the centre of the debate about the inherently perplexing problems of determining human death.

Contents:

Introduction

Terminology

The clinical presentation and pathophysiology of total brain failure

The philosophical debate

Implications for policy and practice

Non-heart-beating organ donation

A summary of the Council's debate on the neurological standard for determining death.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61668-799-1

OCLC:

923662770