Philosophical, Medical, and Legal Controversies About Brain Death

"This Element considers current legal, ethical, metaphysical and medical controversies concerning brain death. It examines the implicit metaphysical and moral commitments and dualism implied by neurological criteria for death"--

List of contents

1. Ways to be dead; 2. Philosophical and medical challenges to brain death; 3. The reinvention of the person; 4. Social, cultural, and spiritual objections to brain death; 5. Is there an end in sight?; References.

Summary

This Element considers current legal, ethical, metaphysical and medical controversies concerning brain death. It examines the implicit metaphysical and moral commitments and dualism implied by neurological criteria for death.

Product details

• Authors: L. Syd M Johnson, L. Syd M (Suny Upstate Medical University Johnson, L. Syd M. Johnson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009323345
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0932334-5
• No. of pages: 84
• Series: Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, Coping with death & bereavement, Bioethics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Social Law, Bio-ethics, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Social law and Medical law, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement