Philosophical, Medical, and Legal Controversies About Brain Death

This Element considers current legal, ethical, metaphysical, and medical controversies concerning brain death. It examines the implicit metaphysical and moral commitments and dualism implied by neurological criteria for death. When these commitments and worldview are not shared by patients and surrogates, they give rise to distrust in healthcare providers and systems, and to injustice, particularly when medicolegal definitions of death are coercively imposed on those who reject them. Ethical obligations to respect persons and patient autonomy, promote patient-centered care, foster and maintain trust, and respond to the demands of justice provide compelling ethical reasons for recognizing reasonable objections. Each section illustrates how seemingly academic debates about brain death have real, on-the-ground implications for patients and their families.

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• Autori: L. Syd M Johnson, L. Syd M (Suny Upstate Medical University Johnson, L. Syd M. Johnson
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009517218
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0951721-8
• Pagine: 84
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 235 mm x 10 mm
• Serie: Print on demand; Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, Coping with death & bereavement, Bioethics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Social Law, Bio-ethics, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Social law and Medical law, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement