Theoretical and Clinical Concerns About Brain Death: The Debate Continues  

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Lustig, B. Andrew

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 26 no. 5 (Oct. 2001), page 447-455.
Topik: Clinical Concerns
Fulltext: MM80V26N5P447.pdf (53.98KB)

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Although debates about the meaning of death have long been a staple of philosophical and religious discussion, until recent decades, judgments about the appropriate criteria for diagnosing death involved, in the words of one eminent commentator, "no major dispute'' (Cranford, 1995, p. 529). However, with the widespread introduction of new technologies during the 1960s, including respirators, intensive care units, and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, the conclusion that clinical death always involves the (nearly simultaneous) loss of cardiopulmonary and neurological function could no longer be retained. Circulation and respiration could now be arti®cially maintained despite apparent cessation of neurological function. Moreover, new techniques of organ transplantation lent a practical urgency to such de®nitional issues, because issues of legal (and moral) liability concerning when death occurs in order that extraction could proceed were linked with broader theoretical and conceptual issues.

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