Harvesting the living?: Separating "brain death" and organ transplantation

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 301-318

  Campbell, Courtney S ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMOTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; DEATH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DONOR; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LIVING DONOR; MANAGEMENT; PHILOSOPHY; POLICY; PUBLIC OPINION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOLOGY; THEOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; TRUST;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

BIOETHICS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN DEATH; DEATH; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LIVING DONORS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PHILOSOPHY; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; THEOLOGY; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRUST;

EID: 6044233430     PISSN: 10546863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ken.2004.0027     Document Type: Review

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