The 'Redefinition of Death' Debate: Western Concepts and Western Bioethics

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 63-75

  Jones, Susan Frances ^a   Kessel, Anthony S ^b  

^a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Biomedicine; Death; Human organ transplantation; Personhood

Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; BRAIN DEATH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; JAPAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

BIOETHICS; BRAIN DEATH; CULTURE; DEATH; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JAPAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035227720     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-001-0024-8     Document Type: Article

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