ArticleThe Journal of medicine and philosophy2016
Total Brain Death and the Integration of the Body Required of a Human Being.
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- Death as the Cessation of an Organism and the Moral Status Alternative.The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2023Article
- The Moral Illicitness of Relying Solely on Neurological Criteria for the Determination of Death: A Catholic Response to "Brain Death".The Linacre quarterly · 2023Article
- The intractable problems with brain death and possible solutions.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2021Review
- Diagnosing death: the "fuzzy area" between life and decomposition.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2021Article
- [Brain death criterion and organ donation: current neuroscientific perspective].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2020Review
- Humility before New Scientific Evidence: We No Longer Have Moral Certainty that "Brain Death" Is True Death.The Linacre quarterly · 2019Article
- How (not) to think of the 'dead-donor' rule.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2018Article
- Symposium on the Definition of Death: Summary Statement.The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2016Article
- Brain Death and Human Organismal Integration: A Symposium on the Definition of Death.The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2016Article
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Abstract
I develop and refine an argument for the total brain death criterion of death previously advanced by Germain Grisez and me: A human being is essentially a rational animal, and so must have a radical capacity for rational operations. For rational animals, conscious sensation is a pre-requisite for rational operation. But total brain death results in the loss of the radical capacity for conscious sensation, and so also for rational operations. Hence, total brain death constitutes a substantial change-the ceasing to be of the human being. Objections are considered, including the objection that total brain death need not result in the loss of capacity for sensation, and that damage to the brain less than total brain death can result in loss of capacity for rational operations.
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