Death before dying : history, medicine, and brain death / / Gary Belkin

• Autore: Belkin Gary S (Gary Stuart), <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetto topico: Brain death; Bioethics; Consciousness
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Death before dying
• ISBN: 0-19-936747-7; 0-19-996962-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824696603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II