TOTAL BRAIN DEATH: A REPLY TO ALAN SHEWMON

D. Alan Shewmon has advanced a well-documented challenge to the widely accepted total brain death criterion for death of the human being. We show that Shewmon's argument against this criterion is unsound, though he does refute the standard argument for that criterion. We advance a distinct argu...

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Authors: Lee, Patrick (Author) ; Grisez, Germain Gabriel 1929- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2012
In: Bioethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 5, Pages: 275-284
Further subjects:B Brain Death
B radical capacity
B Sentience
B Animal
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