Brain dead, brain absent, brain donors : human subjects or human objects?

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Brain dead, brain absent, brain donors : human subjects or human objects?

Peter McCullagh

Wiley, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The development of practices and attitudes to several categories of severly disabled subjects is discussed in this book with particular reference to their use as sources of tissues and organs for transplantation. It deals in the subject of brain death and the changes in approach over three decades including the extension of this category to other groups such as coma patients, anencephalic infants and so on. The book also discusses the current status of the use of foetal brain tissue.

Table of Contents

  • Brain Death: Its Origins, Evolution and Present Status
  • Brain Death: Future Trends and Applications
  • Brain Absence: The Case of the Anencephalic Infant
  • Brain Absence: Use of the Anencephalic Infant in Transplantation
  • The Transplantation of Brain Tissue
  • Human Subjects or Human Objects.

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