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Beyond Brain Death - The Case Against Brain based Critieria for Human Death - Philosophy and Medicine Vol 66 by Michael Potts, Paul A. Byrne, and Richard G. Nilges is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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Beyond Brain Death offers a provocative challenge to one of the most widely accepted conclusions of contemporary bioethics: the position that brain death marks the death of the human person. Eleven chapters by physicians, philosophers, and theologians present the case against brain-based criteria for human death. Each author believes that this position calls into question the moral acceptability of the transplantation of unpaired vital organs from brain-dead patients who have continuing function
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael Potts, Paul A. Byrne, and Richard G. Nilges
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781280043444
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Medical, Philosophy, Science
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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