A change of heart and a change of mind? Technology and the redefinition of death in 1968

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1465-1482

  Giacomini, Mita ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain death; Ethics; Medical technology; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; DEATH; HEART; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMANITIES; KIDNEY; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOMENCLATURE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLICY; UNITED STATES;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HARVARD COMMITTEE ON BRAIN DEATH;

BRAIN DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0030959447     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00266-3     Document Type: Article

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