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Brain-Dead Patients are not Cadavers: The Need to Revise the Definition of Death in Muslim Communities

The utilitarian construct of two alternative criteria of human death increases the supply of transplantable organs at the end of life. Neither the neurological criterion (heart-beating donation) nor the circulatory criterion (non-heart-beating donation) is grounded in scientific evidence but based o...

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Autores principales: Rady, Mohamed Y., Verheijde, Joseph L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23053924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10730-012-9196-7