Abstract These European Resuscitation Council Ethics guidelines provide evidence-based
recommendations for the ethical, routine practice of resuscitation and end-of-life care of …

Background. Advances in medicine and technology that have made it possible to support,
repair, or replace failing organs challenge commonly held notions of life and death. The …

Welcome to Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice (Seventh Edition). This
textbook provides an in-depth introduction to the growing field of health psychology. It is …

Background In Europe, opt-out policies (ie presumed consent) for deceased organ
procurement are an increasingly common strategy to address the organ shortage (Additional …

Whole body gestational donation offers an alternative means of gestation for prospective
parents who wish to have children but cannot, or prefer not to, gestate. It seems plausible …

The determination of a patient's death is of considerable medical and ethical significance.
Death is a biological concept with social implications. Acting with honesty, transparency …

Objective: We sought to evaluate how neurologists approach situations in which families
request prolonged organ support after declaration of death by neurologic criteria (DNC) …

Brain dead organ donors are the principal source of transplantable organs. However, it is
controversial whether brain death is the same as biological death. Therefore, it is unclear …

In 1968, the definition of death in the United States was expanded to include not just death
by cardiopulmonary criteria, but also death by neurologic criteria. We explore the way the …

Thomas Paine wrote The American Crisis during the American Revolution. He made the
following observation:“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of …