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The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics Steinbock, Bonnie University at Albany, State University of New York Print publication date: 2009 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-956241-1 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
12 The Definition of Death doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199562411.003.0013 Stuart J. Youngner Abstract: Introduction – Philosophical Definitions of Death – Brain Death in the United States – Conclusions	Related Content in OHO 'Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide' in The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics
Stuart J. Youngner is the Susan E. Watson Professor of Bioethics and Chair of the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has written and spoken extensively about definitions of death, organ and tissue transplantation, end-of-life decisions, and clinical ethics consultation.	Stuart J. Youngner Find in OUP journals External web page

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I Theoretical and Methodological Issues

1 Methods in Bioethics

2 The Way We Reason Now: Reflective Equilibrium in Bioethics*

4 Mental Disorder, Moral Agency, and the Self*

5 ‘Reinventing’ the Rule of Double Effect

II Justice and Policy

6 Policy-Making in Pluralistic Societies*

7 Tiers Without Tears: the Ethics of a Two-Tier Health Care System

8 Justice and the Elderly

III Bodies and Bodily Parts

9 Organ Transplantation

11 For Dignity or Money: Feminists on the Commodification of Women's Reproductive Labour*

IV The End of Life

12 The Definition of Death

13 The Aging Society and the Expansion of Senility: Biotechnological and Treatment Goals

14 Death is a Punch in the Jaw: Life-Extension and its Discontents*

15 Precedent Autonomy, Advance Directives, and End-of-Life Care

16 Physician-Assisted Death: the State of the Debate

V Reproduction and Cloning

17 Abortion Revisited*

18 Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos: Implications for Stem Cell Research*

19 Therapeutic Cloning: Politics and Policy

VI Genetics and Enhancement

20 Population Genetic Research and Screening: Conceptual and Ethical Issues*

22 Genetic Interventions and The Ethics of Enhancement of Human Beings

23 Pharmacogenomics: Ethical and Regulatory Issues

VII Research Ethics

24 Clinical Equipoise: Foundational Requirement or Fundamental Error?

25 Research on Cognitively Impaired Adults

26 Research in Developing Countries

27 Animal Experimentation

VIII Public and Global Health

28 The Implications of Public Health for Bioethics

29 Global Health

30 Bioethics and Bioterrorism

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