Organ Transplants from Executed Prisoners

Organ Transplants from Executed Prisoners

Physicians are always careful to determine brain death in the absence of anaesthetic influence. [...]while physicians can painlessly remove the heart and other internal organs from an anaesthetised person, that would be unacceptable: an execution performed by physicians. [...]they require intimate p...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Medical Ethics 2001, Vol.27 (2), p.140-141
1. Verfasser: Hilberman, Mark
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Brain death
Capital punishment
Transplants & implants
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Zusammenfassung:Physicians are always careful to determine brain death in the absence of anaesthetic influence. [...]while physicians can painlessly remove the heart and other internal organs from an anaesthetised person, that would be unacceptable: an execution performed by physicians. [...]they require intimate physician participation in the act of execution.
ISSN:0306-6800
1473-4257
DOI:10.1136/jme.27.2.140-a