RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR DEATH: A PARTING OF THE WAYS.
ABSTRACT Most organized religions have indicated a level of support for organ donation including the diagnosis of death by the brain criterion. Organ donation is seen as a gift of love and fits within a communitarian ethos that most religions embrace. The acceptance of the determination of death by...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 26; no. 8; pp. 410 - 422 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2012
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