Where's Waldo? The ‘decapitation gambit’ and the definition of death
The ‘decapitation gambit’ holds that, if physical decapitation normally entails the death of the human being, then physiological decapitation, evident in cases of total brain failure, entails the death of the human being. This argument has been challenged by Franklin Miller and Robert Truog, who arg...
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BMJ Publ.
2011
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 37, Issue: 12, Pages: 743-746 |
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