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Autore |
Belkin Gary S (Gary Stuart), <1962-> |
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Death before dying : history, medicine, and brain death / / Gary Belkin |
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Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-936747-7 |
0-19-996962-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Brain death |
Bioethics |
Consciousness |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Death before Dying; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: FEAR AND TREMBLING; 1 "Strange Business"; 2 The Justification: Beecher's Ethics; 3 The Law; 4 The Criteria I: The Waking Brain and the Discourse of Consciousness; 5 The Criteria II: The Working Brain and the Comatose Patient; 6 Brain Death After Beecher and the Limits of Bioethics; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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