The definition of death : contemporary controversies /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 9. The unimportance of death
- Ch. 10. American attitudes and beliefs about brain death: the empirical literature
- Ch. 11. Fundamentals of life and death: Christian fundamentalism and medical science
- Ch. 12. The definition of death in Jewish law
- Ch. 13. Brain death, ethics, and politics in Denmark
- Ch. 14. The problem of brain death: Japanese disputes about bodies and modernity
- Ch. 15. Defining death in Germany: brain death and its discontents
- Ch. 16. Dusk, dawn, and defining death: legal classifications and biological categories.
- Ch. 17. The role of the public in public policy on the definition of death
- Ch. 18. Death in a technological and pluralistic culture
- Ch. 19. Redefining death: the mirage of consensus
- Ch. 20. Where do we go from here?