Beyond Brain Death The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human D
Beyond Brain Death offers a provocative challenge to one of the most widely accepted conclusions of contemporary bioethics: the position that brain death marks the death of the human person. Eleven chapters by physicians, philosophers, and theologians pre
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 66 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker
Editor College of Medicine and Philosophy Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Editorial Board George J. Agich, Department of Bioethics, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio Nicolas Capaldi, Philosophy Department, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma Edmund Erde, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, New Jersey Becky White, California State University, Chico, California Kevin Wm. Wildes, Philosophy Department, Georgetown University Washington,D.C.
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
BEYOND BRAIN DEATH THE CASE AGAINST BRAIN BASED CRITERIA FOR HUMAN DEATH
by
MICHAEL POTTS Associate Professor of Philosophy, Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.A.
PAUL A. BYRNE Neonatologist, St. Charles Hospital Oregon, Ohio, U.S.A. and
RICHARD G. NILGES Retired Neurologist, Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments MICHAEL POTTS, PAUL A. BYRNE, AND RICHARD G. NILGES / Introduction: Beyond Brain Death PAUL A. BYRNE, SEAN O’REILLY, PAUL M. QUAY, AND PETER W. SALSICH, JR. / Brain Death—The Patient, the Physician, and Society DAVID ALBERT JONES, O.P. / Metaphysical Misgivings about “Brain Death” MICHAEL POTTS / Pro-Life Support of the Whole Brain Death Criteria: A problem of Consistency DAVID W. EVANS / The Demise of “Brain Death” in Britain DAVID J. HILL / Brain Stem Death: A United Kingdom Anaesthetist’s View YOSHIO WATANABE / Brain Death and Cardiac Transplantation: Historical Background and Unsettled Controversies in Japan TOMOKO ABE / Philosophical and Cultural Attitudes Against Brain Death and Organ Transplantation in Japan JOSEF SEIFERT / Brain Death and Euthanasia MARK HAVERLAND / The Moment of Death and the Morally Safer Path MARTYN EVANS AND MICHAEL POTTS / A Narrative Case Against Brain Death RICHARD G. NILGES / Organ Transplantation, Brain Death, and the Slippery Slope: A Neurosurgeon’s Perspective
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS
261
INDEX OF NAMES
267
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book of essays offers, we believe, a significant contribution to the debate over the proper criteria of death and an important challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy which identifies brain death with the death of the person. The editors wish to note
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