Philosophical, Medical, and Legal Controversies About Brain Death Paperback / softback
by L. Syd M (Suny Upstate Medical University) Johnson
Part of the Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This Element considers current legal, ethical, metaphysical, and medical controversies concerning brain death.
It examines the implicit metaphysical and moral commitments and dualism implied by neurological criteria for death.
When these commitments and worldview are not shared by patients and surrogates, they give rise to distrust in healthcare providers and systems, and to injustice, particularly when medicolegal definitions of death are coercively imposed on those who reject them.
Ethical obligations to respect persons and patient autonomy, promote patient-centered care, foster and maintain trust, and respond to the demands of justice provide compelling ethical reasons for recognizing reasonable objections.
Each section illustrates how seemingly academic debates about brain death have real, on-the-ground implications for patients and their families.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:84 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781009323345
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:84 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009323345
