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dc.contributor.author | Singer, P | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-25T14:48:30Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-25T14:48:30Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018-12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Singer, Peter. "The challenge of brain death for the sanctity of life ethic." Ethics & Bioethics 8, no. 3-4 (2018): 153-165. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1338-5615 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr10c5z | - |
dc.description.abstract | For more than thirty years, in most of the world, the irreversible cessation of all brain function, more commonly known as brain death, has been accepted as a criterion of death. Yet the philosophical basis on which this understanding of death was originally grounded has been undermined by the long-term maintenance of bodily functions in brain dead patients. More recently, the American case of Jahi McMath has cast doubt on whether the standard tests for diagnosing brain death exclude a condition in which the patient is not dead, but in a minimally conscious state. I argue that the evidence now clearly shows that brain death is not equivalent to the death of the human organism. We therefore face a choice: Either we stop removing vital organs from brain dead patients, or we accept that it is not wrong to kill an innocent human who has irreversibly lost consciousness. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 153 - 165 | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) | en_US |
dc.rights | Final published version. This is an open access article. | en_US |
dc.title | The challenge of brain death for the sanctity of life ethic | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | doi:10.2478/ebce-2018-0012 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2453-7829 | - |
pu.type.symplectic | http://www.symplectic.co.uk/publications/atom-terms/1.0/journal-article | en_US |
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