Brain Death as the End of a Human Organism as a Self-moving Whole.
The biophilosophic justification for the idea that "brain death" (or total brain failure) is death needs to support two claims: (1) that what dies in human death is a human organism, not merely a psychological entity distinct from it; (2) that total brain failure signifies the end of the human organ...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 46; no. 5; pp. 530 - 561 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2021
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