Determining and defining human death in age of life-sustaining technologies is a matter of controversy and touch on some of society’s deepest human questions. A great part of controversy seem to be caused by an imprecise, ambiguous, confusing and misleading use of terms. Medical literature in English language and web sites in Italian language concerning human death, organ donation and transplantation have been studied. We have found a deep gap between medical use of some terms and their common use.
Parente, P., Di Pietro, M. L., Spagnolo, A. G., Corsano, B., TERMS AND SIGNIFICANCE IN TRANSPLANTATION MEDICINE, Abstract de <<15th Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplantation & 22nd Annual Conference of the British Society for Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics>>, (Glasgow, UK, 04-07 September 2011 ), <<TRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL>>, 2011; (24): 245-245 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/62762]
TERMS AND SIGNIFICANCE IN TRANSPLANTATION MEDICINE
Parente, Paola;Di Pietro, Maria Luisa;Spagnolo, Antonio Gioacchino;Corsano, Barbara
2011
Abstract
Determining and defining human death in age of life-sustaining technologies is a matter of controversy and touch on some of society’s deepest human questions. A great part of controversy seem to be caused by an imprecise, ambiguous, confusing and misleading use of terms. Medical literature in English language and web sites in Italian language concerning human death, organ donation and transplantation have been studied. We have found a deep gap between medical use of some terms and their common use.
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