Treating the dead; how far ought medicine go to obtain transplantable organs?
Under what circumstances, is it ethical to perform tumor surgery on a brain-dead individual? The neurosurgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital were recently faced with such a question when asked to operate on a 28-year-old man who was pronounced brain-dead secondary to a severe brain-stem injur...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Transplantation |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frtra.2023.1297957/full |