The purpose of this paper is methodological. I begin by showing the methodological frailties of both the heart and brain approach to the criteria of death used in connection with organ transplantation. I then clarify what a definition is. Finally, I propose to abandon the definition of death, and suggest a pragmatic definition of ‘explantability window’
Singer claims that there are two ways of challenging the fact that brain-dead patients, from whom or...
This article tries to understand and define death scien- tifically. Today’s scientific development ...
Abstract A series of papers in Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) have recently di...
The purpose of this paper is methodological. I begin by showing the methodological frailties of both...
Medical progress has moved the boundaries of life that were set many centuries ago. The developmen...
abstract: The concept of when human death occurs had for most of history been determined by criteria...
Several bioethicists have recently discussed the complexity of defining human death, and considered ...
The concept of death has evolved medically, legally and culturally since the introduction of life su...
Abstract Because complex organs taken from unequivocally dead people are not suitable for transplant...
The term ‘brain death’ is a rather untenable description to be defended ethically. This needs to be ...
An individual who has sustained either irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functio...
In recent time the critique of the whole brain death as the criterion of hu-man death, that was intr...
Heart Transplantation after Circulatory Death: It is time to Redefine Death According to Irreversibl...
With the evolution of medical technology, particularly resuscitation techniques, our way of understa...
The thesis presents current understanding of the concept of death and criteria for diagno- sis of de...
Singer claims that there are two ways of challenging the fact that brain-dead patients, from whom or...
This article tries to understand and define death scien- tifically. Today’s scientific development ...
Abstract A series of papers in Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) have recently di...
The purpose of this paper is methodological. I begin by showing the methodological frailties of both...
Medical progress has moved the boundaries of life that were set many centuries ago. The developmen...
abstract: The concept of when human death occurs had for most of history been determined by criteria...
Several bioethicists have recently discussed the complexity of defining human death, and considered ...
The concept of death has evolved medically, legally and culturally since the introduction of life su...
Abstract Because complex organs taken from unequivocally dead people are not suitable for transplant...
The term ‘brain death’ is a rather untenable description to be defended ethically. This needs to be ...
An individual who has sustained either irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functio...
In recent time the critique of the whole brain death as the criterion of hu-man death, that was intr...
Heart Transplantation after Circulatory Death: It is time to Redefine Death According to Irreversibl...
With the evolution of medical technology, particularly resuscitation techniques, our way of understa...
The thesis presents current understanding of the concept of death and criteria for diagno- sis of de...
Singer claims that there are two ways of challenging the fact that brain-dead patients, from whom or...
This article tries to understand and define death scien- tifically. Today’s scientific development ...
Abstract A series of papers in Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) have recently di...
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