Integrated But Not Whole? Applying an Ontological Account of Human Organismal Unity to the Brain Death Debate
As is clear in the 2008 report of the President's Council on Bioethics, the brain death debate is plagued by ambiguity in the use of such key terms as ‘integration’ and ‘wholeness’. Addressing this problem, I offer a plausible ontological account of organismal unity drawing on the work of Hoffm...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2016]
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Bioethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 8, Pages: 550-556 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Brain Death
B Alan Shewmon B 2008 President's Council B organismal unity |
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