An Alternative to Brain Death

Author:

McMahan Jeff

Abstract

Most contributors to the debate about brain death, including Dr. James Bernat, share certain assumptions. They believe that the concept of death is univocal, that death is a biological phenomenon, that it is necessarily irreversible, that it is paradigmatically something that happens to organisms, that we are human organisms, and therefore that our deaths will be deaths of organisms. These claims are supposed to have moral significance. It is, for example, only when a person dies that it is permissible to extract her organs for transplantation.It is also commonly held that our univocal notion of death is the permanent cessation of integrated functioning in an organism and that the criterion for determining when this has occurred in animals with brains is the death of the brain as a whole – that is, brain death. The reason most commonly given for this is that the brain is the irreplaceable master control of the organism's integration.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Health Policy,General Medicine,Issues, ethics and legal aspects

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5. 5. Bernat also claims that “consciousness, which is required for the organism to respond to requirements for hydration, nutrition, and protection, among other needs,” is therefore among the “critical functions of the organism as a whole.” Ibid., at 17. But this still does not make it a somatic regulatory function of the brain.

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