This book challenges conventional medical ethics by exposing the inconsistency between the reality of end-of-life practices and established ethical justificatio
"In this paper we ... maintain that the concepts that underlie brain death are not biologically plausible, may be unacceptable to the community at large and are
In 1997, the Institute of Medicine published a report entitled Non-Heart- Beating Organ Transplantation: Medical and Ethical Issues in Procurement. The findings
Critical analysis of the moral soundness of the "brain death" and "controlled cardiac/circulatory death" protocols used in organ transplantation. Analyzes the r
Rates of organ donation lag far behind the increasing need. At the start of 2006, more than 90,000 people were waiting to receive a solid organ (kidney, liver,