02676nam 2200601 450 991082469660332120230803220658.00-19-936747-70-19-996962-0(CKB)2550000001180886(EBL)1602513(SSID)ssj0001084356(PQKBManifestationID)12423274(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001084356(PQKBWorkID)11035615(PQKB)10551191(Au-PeEL)EBL1602513(CaPaEBR)ebr10826583(CaONFJC)MIL560941(OCoLC)868266072(MiAaPQ)EBC1602513(EXLCZ)99255000000118088620140128h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDeath before dying history, medicine, and brain death /Gary BelkinOxford, [England] ;New York, [New York] :Oxford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (290 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-989817-0 1-306-29690-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; INDEXBrain 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 iBrain deathBioethicsConsciousnessBrain death.Bioethics.Consciousness.174.2Belkin Gary S(Gary Stuart),1962-1702353MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824696603321Death before dying4086817UNINA