Do the ‘brain dead’ merely appear to be alive?
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Do the ‘brain dead’ merely appear to be alive?
The established view regarding 'brain death' in medicine and medical ethics is that patients determined to be dead by neurological criteria are dead in terms of a biological conception of death, not a philosophical conception of personhood, a social construction or a legal fiction. Although such individuals show apparent signs of being alive, in reality they are (biologically) dead, though this...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0306-6800,1473-4257
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103867