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Death, dying, and organ transplantation : reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life / Franklin G. Miller and Robert D. Truog.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Franklin G., author.
- Truog, Robert, author.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages)
- Other Title:
- Reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics. They argue systematically that physicians legitimately cause the death of patients in the routine practices of withdrawing life support and vital organ donation.
- Contents:
- 1. Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment: Allowing to Die or Causing Death?
- 2. Active Euthanasia
- 3. Death and the Brain
- 4. Challenges to a Circulatory-Respiratory Criterion for Death
- 5. Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death
- 6. Vital Organ Donation without the Dead Donor Rule
- 7. Legal Fictions Approach to Organ Donation, with Seema K. Shah
- 8. Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-42375-8
- 9786613423757
- 0-19-990995-4
- OCLC:
- 922971031
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