Overview
While there are several books devoted to the study of specific issues of brain death, this book covers almost all issues including, medical, legal, bioethical and historical aspects
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This text is intended to provide an overview of brain death. The topics explored in this book are the concept and historical approach of human death, clinical examinations of brain-dead patients, ancillary tests in coma and brain death, bioethical discussions of brain death and its relationship with some consciousness disturbances, and the legal considerations of human death.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This is a single author monograph describing recent work culminating in the contemporary approach to diagnosis of brain death. … Neurologists, neurosurgeons, intensivists, and transplanters are an appropriate audience for this work … . Black-and-white line drawings are done well and a selection of good color plates is grouped together. … This book smoothly sheds light on the biology and controversy surrounding an important clinical topic. … is attractive for its historical scope coupled with clinical clarity." (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, July, 2008)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brain Death
Book Subtitle: A Reappraisal
Authors: Calixto Machado
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38977-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-38975-2Published: 21 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9363-2Published: 16 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-38977-6Published: 10 September 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 223
Topics: Neurosciences