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Defining and Determining Human Death
Defining and Determining Human Death

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Since a groundbreaking 1968 report, vigorous debate has ensued regarding how we ought to conceptually define and clinically determine when a human being has died. At the conceptual level, debate centers upon whether a human being qua “person”—understood in a . . .

Since a groundbreaking 1968 report, vigorous debate has ensued regarding how we ought to conceptually define and clinically determine when a human being has died. At the conceptual level, debate centers upon whether a human being qua “person”—understood in a Lockean psychological sense—dies if they become irreversibly comatose or if a human being is essentially […]

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