Controversies in the determination of death : a white paper of the President's Council on Bioethics.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Proof and certification--Moral and ethical aspects.

Death.

Brain death.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Thanatology.

Brain Death--diagnosis.

Attitude to Death.

Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics.

Brain Death.

deaths.

Medical Subjects:

Brain Death--diagnosis.

Death.

Attitude to Death.

Thanatology.

Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics.

Brain Death.

Physical Description:

xix, 144 pages : digital, PDF file

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : President's Council on Bioethics, [2008]

Summary:

The question of how, by what standard, an individual should be declared dead is once more a matter of controversy. With this report, the President's Council on Bioethics takes up this controversy and seeks to illuminate the issues at the center of the renewed debate about the inherently perplexing problems of determining human death in an age of life-sustaining technologies. The President's Council examines the main lines of criticism and defense of the neurological standard, and also explores the ethical concerns engendered by the use of the traditional cardiopulmonary standard in the organ procurement practice known as "controlled donation after cardiac death." In so doing, the President's Council on Bioethics aims to apprise the American public of the contemporary state of the debate and to guide the public's reflections on matters that touch on some of society's deepest human questions.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 24, 2009).

"December 2008."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-144).

OCLC:

316875462