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Brain death : a reappraisal

Title
Brain death : a reappraisal / Calixto Machado.
Author
Machado, Calixto.
Publication
New York : Springer, [2007], ©2007.

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Description
ix, 223 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
Subject
  • Brain death
  • Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Brain Death > diagnosis
  • Death
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement > ethics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The concept of brain death did not evolve to benefit organ transplants -- 2. The first organ transplant from a brain-dead donor -- 3. Conceptual approach to human death on neurological grounds -- 4. Clinical diagnosis of brain death -- 5. Ancillary tests in brain death confirmation -- 6. Brain death in children -- 7. Vegetative and minimally conscious states and other disturbances of consciousness -- 8. Brain death and organ transplantation : ethical issues -- 9. Legal considerations on the determination and certification of human death.
ISBN
  • 9780387389752 (hd.bd.)
  • 038738975X (hd.bd.)
  • 9780387389776 (e-ISBN)
  • 0387389776 (e-ISBN)
LCCN
2006931777
OCLC
  • ocn166888723
  • 166888723
  • SCSB-5398489
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries