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Pages: 227
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

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In this riveting and timely work, John P. Lizza presents the first comprehensive analysis of personhood and humanity in the context of defining death. Rejecting
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Pages: 176
Authors: Robert M. Veatch
Categories: Bioethics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Georgetown University Press

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New technologies and medical treatments continue to complicate questions surrounding the moment of death. Distinguished bioethicists Robert M. Veatch and Lainie
Beyond Brain Death
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Pages: 408
Authors: M. Potts
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-11 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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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
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
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Authors: Floris Tomasini
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The questio
The Definition of Death
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Stuart J. Youngner
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10-15 - Publisher: JHU Press

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In the 1980s, following the recommendation of a presidential commission, all fifty states replaced previous cardiopulmonary definitions of death with one that a