How the Body Became Integrated: Cybernetics in the History of the Brain Death Debate.
Although the term integration is central to the definition of brain death, there is little agreement on what it means. Through a genealogical analysis, this essay argues that there have been two primary ways of understanding integration in regard to organismal wholeness. One stems from neuroscience,...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 387 - 407 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2022
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