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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...

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Published in:Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 315 - 329
Main Authors: GIORGIO AUSTRIACO, NICANOR PIER, Austriaco, Nicanor Pier Giorgio Op
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2016
Subjects:
Brain death
Christian philosophy
Subconsciousness
Brain function localization
Bioethics
Patients
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