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Death, dying, and organ transplantation : reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life / Franklin G. Miller and Robert D. Truog.

By: Miller, Franklin G.
Contributor(s): Truog, Robert.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2016Description: ix, 196 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780190460846 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects | Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects | Withholding Treatment -- ethics | Ethics, Medical | Euthanasia, Active -- ethics | Tissue and Organ Procurement -- ethicsGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: allowing to die or causing death? -- Active euthanasia -- Death and the brain -- Challenges to a circulatory-respiratory criterion for death -- Donation after circulatory determination of death -- Vital organ donation without the dead donor rule -- Legal fictions approach to organ donation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: allowing to die or causing death? -- Active euthanasia -- Death and the brain -- Challenges to a circulatory-respiratory criterion for death -- Donation after circulatory determination of death -- Vital organ donation without the dead donor rule -- Legal fictions approach to organ donation.

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