Defining Death: The Case for Choice - Softcover

Ross, Lainie F.; Veatch, Robert M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626163553 ISBN 13: 9781626163553

Verlag: Georgetown University Press, 2016

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Veatch and Ross argue that the definition of death is a social question rooted in a person’s religious, philosophical, or social beliefs. While ceding that society needs a default definition to proceed in some cases, the authors state that any decision-making process must allow individuals to make their own choices according to their personal beliefs.

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Robert M. Veatch, PhD, is professor of medical ethics emeritus at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and the Humanities. The author of fifty books, he is coauthor of Transplantation Ethics, Second Edition, with Lainie F. Ross. He serves on the United Network for Organ Sharing Ethics Committee and the Board of Directors of the Washington Regional Transplant Community. Lainie F. Ross, MD, is the Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Children, Families and Health Care Decision-Making, Children in Medical Research: Access versus Protection, and coauthor of Transplantation Ethics, Second Edition, with Robert M. Veatch. She has served on the United Network for Organ Sharing Ethics Committee.

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• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1626163553
• ISBN 13: 9781626163553
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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