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Do the ‘brain dead’ merely appear to be alive?

The established view regarding ‘brain death’ in medicine and medical ethics is that patients determined to be dead by neurological criteria are dead in terms of a biological conception of death, not a philosophical conception of personhood, a social construction or a legal fiction. Although such ind...

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Autores principales: Nair-Collins, Michael, Miller, Franklin G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of Medical Ethics 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28848063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2016-103867