Complexity of defining death: organismal death does not mean the cessation of all biological life
Michael Nair-Collins and Franklin Miller are right to emphasise that, in order to deliberate responsibly about ethical and legal questions related to brain death and organ donation, it is crucial to answer the question of whether or not ‘brain death’i does indeed mark the biological death of the org...
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2017
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 43, Issue: 11, Pages: 754-755 |
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