The Brain Dead Patient Is Still Sentient: A Further Reply to Patrick Lee and Germain Grisez.
Patrick Lee and Germain Grisez have argued that the total brain dead patient is still dead because the integrated entity that remains is not even an animal, not only because he is not sentient but also, and more importantly, because he has lost the radical capacity for sentience. In this essay, writ...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 315 - 329 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2016
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