Defining Death : The Case for Choice

Robert M. Veatch

ISBN 10: 1626163553 / ISBN 13: 9781626163553

Verlag: Georgetown University Press Nov 2016, 2016

Beschreibung

Neuware - New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This boo is suitable for professionals in medicine, law, insurance and more.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781626163553

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Defining Death : The Case for Choice
• Verlag: Georgetown University Press Nov 2016
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1626163553
• ISBN-13: 9781626163553
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 139 H x 14 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 139 mm, Tiefe: 14 mm
• Gewicht: 226 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.