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DOI: 10.18276/aie.2018.42-07
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42 (2018)
Śmierć mózgowa - kontrowersje i uzgodnienia
(Brain Death: Controversies and Agreements)
| Authors: |
Anna
Alichniewicz
Uniwersytet Medyczny w Łodzi |
| Keywords: | Death of the organism as a whole death of a person brain death total brain failure |
| Data publikacji całości: | 2018 |
| Page range: | 14 (131-144) |
Abstract
BRAIN DEATH: CONTROVERSIES AND AGREEMENTS
Human death is challenging from both philosophical and medical points of view,
because of an apparent ontological discrepancy between the diagnosis of death of
the organism as a whole and the declaration of death of a human person. In my paper
I make an attempt to analyze the main controversies as well as agreements concerning
ontological and medico-epistemological problems that have created the evolution of
the definition of brain death, arguing that: 1. It is impossible to define death; 2. What
functions as the definition of death is rather a set of criteria of death than a definition
in a proper sense; 3. The debate concerning so-called definition of death refers not
to death as such, universally conceptualized, but to a specific problem of death of
a human being; 4. Analyzing the problem of human death it is impossible to make
a clear distinction between biological and philosophical dimensions.
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