Death before dying

Belkin, Gary S. 1962-

Death before dying History, Medicine, and Brain Death [electronic resource] / Gary S. Belkin. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014] - xxviii, 256 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strange business -- The justification : Beecher's ethics -- The law -- The criteria I : the waking brain--brainstem and the discourse of consciousness -- The criteria II : the working brain : the comatose patient and the biology of consciousness -- Brain death after Beecher and the limits of bioethics.


Available electronically via the Internet.

9780199898176 (alk. paper)


Brain death.

Brain Death. Bioethical Issues. Consciousness.

616.078