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Brain Death and Brainstem Death: Philosophical and Ethical Considerations

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 22:231-249 (1987)

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are 'dead'?J. F. Catherwood - 1992 - Journal of Medical Ethics 18 (1):34-39.details The article recently published in this journal by Dr B A Rix, a member of the Danish Council of Ethics (DCE), was heavily criticised by Dr David Lamb and Mr Christopher Pallis in subsequent commentaries. The editorial column by Professor Raanan Gillon also criticised the position put forward by Rix. In this article I contend that the definition of death put forward by Pallis and Lamb suffers certain philosophical shortcomings, that the position put forward by Rix deserves fuller consideration, and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Death and reductionism: a reply to John F Catherwood.D. Lamb - 1992 - Journal of Medical Ethics 18 (1):40-42.details This reply to John F Catherwood's criticism of brain-related criteria for death argues that brainstem criteria are neither reductionist nor do they presuppose a materialist theory of mind. Furthermore, it is argued that brain-related criteria are compatible with the majority of religious views concerning death. Download Export citation Bookmark
(1 other version)Danish ethics council rejects brain death as the criterion of death -- commentary 2: return to Elsinore.Christopher Pallis - 1990 - Journal of Medical Ethics 16 (1):10-13.details No discussion of when an individual is dead is meaningful in the absence of a definition of death. If human death is defined as the irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness combined with the irreversible loss of the capacity to breathe spontaneously (and hence to maintain a spontaneous heart beat) the death of the brainstem will be seen to be the necessary and sufficient condition for the death of the individual. Such a definition of death is not something radically (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations
(1 other version)Danish ethics council rejects brain death as the criterion of death -- commentary 2: return to Elsinore.Christopher Pallis - 1990 - Journal of Medical Ethics 16 (1):10-13.details No discussion of when an individual is dead is meaningful in the absence of a definition of death. If human death is defined as the irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness combined with the irreversible loss of the capacity to breathe spontaneously (and hence to maintain a spontaneous heart beat) the death of the brainstem will be seen to be the necessary and sufficient condition for the death of the individual. Such a definition of death is not something radically (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations

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